By Linda M. Heywood
This quantity units out a brand new paradigm that raises our knowing of African tradition and the forces that resulted in its transformation throughout the interval of the Atlantic slave alternate and past, placing lengthy due emphasis at the significance of significant African tradition to the cultures of the U.S., Brazil, and the Caribbean. targeting the Kongo/Angola tradition area, the publication illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural associations as they interacted with Portuguese slave investors as much as 1800, then follows valuable Africans via all of the areas the place they have been taken as slaves and captives.
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19 Phyllis Martin, The External Trade of the Loango Coast (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), remains the basic monograph on this region. , recently “Tr´afico e mudanc¸ a do poder tradicional no Reino Ngoyo (Cabinda no s´eculo XIX),” Estudos afro-asi´aticos (Centro de Estudos Afro-Asi´aticos, Rio de Janeiro), 32 (1997): 97–108. 1. Central Africa During the Era of the Slave Trade, c. 2. The Portuguese Southern Atlantic in the eighteenth century. (Source: Joseph C. Miller, “The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade,” Social Science History, 13:4 [1989]; p.
STRUCTURE OF THE ESSAYS AND OVERVIEW The book is divided into four parts. Part One comprises three essays that focus on Central African societies during the era of the slave trade. The aim of these essays is to highlight the questions of ethnicity, cultural traditions, and creolization. Joseph Miller’s essay opens the section, and it looks at “how people living in Central Africa during the era of the slave trade thought about themselves and the many worlds they lived in,” and the patterns of slaving that led to the capture and exports of millions of Central Africans to various regions of the Americas.
The similarities of the environment of Central Africa and the Lowcountry also drive home the point. In the second essay, Monica Schuler examines the experiences of the West Central African contingent among the group of 13,000 liberated Africans who were recruited by the British to work in Guyana between 1841 and 1866. Based on both archival and oral sources, the contribution suggests strong parallels between the experience of the African indentured labor and those of slaves. At the same time, the paper, by highlighting the oral narratives of return collected from descendants of the indentured Africans, pinpoints one of the most interesting and least understood elements of Diasporic experiences.