African Identity and Slavery in the Americas

Gómez, Michael A.

doi:10.1215/01636545-1999-75-111

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“…It is therefore all the more disappointing that Africa continues to receive such short shrift.' 139 Toby Green endorsed this view in his work A Fistful of Shells, stating that 'the modern world emerged from a mixed cultural framework in which many different peoples from West Africa and West Central Africa played a significant part. Yet, knowledge of these studies remains thinly spread.'…”

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Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century

Nafafé¹

2022

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This groundbreaking study tells the story of the highly organised, international legal court case for the abolition of slavery spearheaded by Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the seventeenth century. The case, presented before the Vatican, called for the freedom of all enslaved people and other oppressed groups. This included New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity) and Indigenous Americans in the Atlantic World, and Black Christians from confraternities in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and Spain. Abolition debate is generally believed to have been dominated by white Europeans in the eighteenth century. By centring African agency, José Lingna Nafafé offers a new perspective on the abolition movement, showing, for the first time, how the legal debate was begun not by Europeans, but by Africans. In the first book of its kind, Lingna Nafafé underscores the exceptionally complex nature of the African liberation struggle, and demystifies the common knowledge and accepted wisdom surrounding African slavery.

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Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century

Nafafé¹

2022

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“…(Gomez 1998(Gomez , 1999 Specifically, Gomez argued that responses to enslavement were conditioned by particular African cultural, social, and religious antecedents. Furthermore, slaveholders made decisions about labor assignments and material treatment based on their assessment of Bcultural traits^-one such example would be the tendency for Muslims who were literate to be promoted in plantation slave hierarchies or be given more responsibility than their peers.…”

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The Study of Islam and Muslim Communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas: the State of the Field

Chitwood

2017

Int J Lat Am Relig

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This essay offers a brief review of existent literature in the field of Islamic studies in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas focusing on its main themes and suggesting some areas for further consideration and research. The essay makes theoretical suggestions for where scholars could inject their energy and efforts to advance this unfolding field of study. These theoretical considerations suggest that more work could be done in expanding the field in its engagement with prevalent theories in the field of global Islamic studies and those that treat the Americas as a geography of dynamic hemispheric engagement and encounter. Essentially, the paper argues that there is still a necessity to explore the tensions, interactions, frictions, and collaborations across and at the boundaries between the global umma and the American assabiya, between the global and the local, and between immigrant communities and the growing number of regional converts. Finally, the author suggests some practical considerations that may prove beneficial to the field's advancement.

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