The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic

CONTENTS
Preface

PART I
1. Rufino’s Africa
2. Enslaved in Bahia
3. Enslaved in Porto Alegre
4. Farroupilha and Freedom
5. Freedman in Rio de Janeiro
6. Rio de Janeiro, a City in Fear

PART II
7. Rufino Joins the Slave Trade
8. Luanda, Slave-Trading Capital of Angola
9. Readying the Ermelinda
10. Rufino’s Employers
11. Passengers, Shippers, and Cargo
12. The Ermelinda Goes to Sea
13. The Equipment Act
14. Sierra Leone
15. Among Akus and African Muslims
16. The Trial of the Ermelinda
17. Dirty Tric
18. Back to Sea

PART III
19. Counting the Costs
20. Rufino’s Recife
21. A Man of Faith and Sorcery
22. Tense Times in Rufino’s Recife
23. A Free Man
24. The Malês of Recife and a Doctrinal Dispute

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources and Works Cited
Name Index
Subject Index