Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American Diaspora

List of Contributors

Foreword
By Jan Vansina

Acknowledgments

Introduction
By Linda M. Heywood

PART ONE - CENTRAL AFRICA: SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND THE SLAVE TRADE
1 - Central Africa During the Era of the Slave Trade, c. 1490s–1850s
By Joseph C. Miller

2 - Religious and Ceremonial Life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500–1700
By John K. Thornton

3 - Portuguese into African: The Eighteenth-Century Central African Background to Atlantic Creole Cultures
By Linda M. Heywood

PART TWO - CENTRAL AFRICANS IN BRAZIL
4 - Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780–1835
By Mary C. Karasch

5 - Who Is the King of Congo? A New Look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil
By Elizabeth W. Kiddy

6 - The Great Porpoise-Skull Strike: Central African Water Spirits and Slave Identity in Early-Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
By Robert W. Slenes

PART THREE - CENTRAL AFRICANS IN HAITI AND SPANISH AMERICA
7 - Twins, Simbi Spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti
By Wyatt MacGaffey

8 - The Central African Presence in Spanish Maroon Communities
By Jane Landers

9 - Central African Popular Christianity and the Making of Haitian Vodou Religion
By Hein Vanhee

10 - Kongolese Catholic Influences on Haitian Popular Catholicism: A Sociohistorical Exploration
By Terry Rey

PART FOUR - CENTRAL AFRICANS IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
11 - “Walk in the Feenda”: West-Central Africans and the Forest in the South Carolina–Georgia Lowcountry
By Ras Michael Brown

12 - Liberated Central Africans in Nineteenth-Century Guyana
By Monica Schuler

13 - Combat and the Crossing of the Kalunga
By T. J. Desch-Obi

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