Cross-cultural exchange in the Atlantic world

Cross-cultural exchange in the Atlantic world

by Roquinaldo Amaral Ferreira

Book 121 of African studies --

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"This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity formation, religious ties and resistance to slaving were central to the formation of the Atlantic world. By adding to our knowledge of the slaving process, the book powerfully illustrates how Atlantic slaving transformed key African institutions, such as local regimes of forced labor that predated and coexisted with Atlantic slaving and made them fundamental features of the Atlantic world's social fabric"--

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    How does Ferreira’s central premise—that the Atlantic Ocean connected rather than separated Angola and Brazil—challenge your previous understanding of the slave trade and the making of the Atlantic world?

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    In what ways does the book’s focus on individual biographies and human stories change how we perceive historical subjects who are often reduced to statistics in textbooks?

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    Ferreira illustrates how the cross-cultural trade of the Atlantic era transformed local African institutions, including indigenous regimes of forced labor. How do you think modern societies reckon with the complex legacies of institutions that predate yet were co-opted by global trade systems?

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