Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, BrazilBlacks of the Rosary tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary in Minas Gerais. It shows how these brotherhoods functioned as a social space in which Africans and their descendants could rebuild a communal identity based on a shared history of an African past and an ongoing devotional practice, thereby giving rise to enduring transnational cultures that have survived to the present day. In exploring this intersection of community, identity, and memory, the book probes the Portuguese and African contributions to the brotherhoods in Part One. Part Two traces the changes and continuities within the organizations from the early eighteenth century to the end of the Brazilian Empire, and the book concludes in Part Three with discussion of the twentieth-century brotherhoods and narratives of the participants in brotherhood festivals in the 1990s. In a larger sense, the book serves as a case study through which readers can examine the strategies that Afro-Brazilians used to create viable communities in order to confront the asymmetry of power inherent in the slave societies of the Americas and their economic and social marginalization in the twentieth century. |
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... Kongo, and by the end of the century Vasco da Gama was rounding the Cape of Good Hope on his way to India.60 The church fully supported the Portuguese expansion, as well as the capture and evangelization of Africans. Popes issued three ...
... Kongo became a “Christian” state in 1491, after the king of Kongo accepted Christianity and became Dom João I of Kongo. Dom Henrique, son of King Afonso I of Kongo and grandson of the first Christian Kongo king, became the most famous ...
... Kongo mentioned a rosary brotherhood in São Salvador, the capital of Kongo, in which the Kongo royal family held the most important posts.77 By the late seventeenth century, several brotherhoods of the rosary had been founded in Angola ...
... Kongo and Benin as well as for European manufactured goods. This net import of slaves and export of gold continued until the seventeenth century.9 In 1637, however, the Dutch captured São Jorge da Mina, and in 1641 the Portuguese signed ...
... Kongo in Central Africa. For example, the king of Benin said that he was interested in adopting Christianity, but the sixteenthcentury historian João de Barros pointed out that he “was very much under the influence of his idolatries ...
Contents
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3 Early Formation of the Brotherhoods 16901750 | 67 |
4 The Late Colonial Period 17501822 | 103 |
5 The Brotherhoods in the Brazilian Empire | 139 |
6 Congados and Reinados 18881990 | 173 |
7 Voices of the Congadeiros | 207 |
Conclusion | 241 |
Appendix | 251 |
Glossary | 259 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 281 |
Back Cover | 288 |
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Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy Limited preview - 2005 |
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