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In People of Faith, Mariza de Carvalho Soares reconstructs the
everyday lives of Mina slaves transported in the eighteenth century
to Rio de Janeiro from the western coast of Africa, particularly
from modern-day Benin. She describes a Catholic lay brotherhood
formed by the enslaved Mina congregants of a Rio church, and she
situates the brotherhood in a panoramic setting encompassing the
historical development of the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa
and the ethnic composition of Mina slaves in eighteenth-century
Rio. Although Africans from the Mina Coast constituted no more than
ten percent of the slave population of Rio, they were a strong
presence in urban life at the time. Soares analyzes the role that
Catholicism, and particularly lay brotherhoods, played in Africans'
construction of identities under slavery in colonial Brazil. As in
the rest of the Portuguese empire, black lay brotherhoods in Rio
engaged in expressions of imperial pomp through elaborate
festivals, processions, and funerals; the election of kings and
queens; and the organization of royal courts. Drawing mainly on
ecclesiastical documents, Soares reveals the value of church
records for historical research.
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