Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Sweet has mined an incredibly rich source of information in the Inquisition archives and produced an engaging study of the inner lives of Africans suffering under slavery in Brazil. His book will be a landmark in bringing Africa into the mix in Brazilian history.(John Thornton, Millersville University, author ofAfrica and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800.) --Review