Title: Dicionário da escravidão
First published: 1997
Description: "Composed of more than 1,500 entries, this eclectic dictionary provides fascinating evidence of the enormous impact of African slavery on Brazilian culture. Entries include food (fruits, vegetables, herbs), illnesses, slave remedies, insurrections, ancestral beliefs, punishments, religious syncretism, slave ethnicities and dances, and slave legislation. An extensive entry on 'Bibliography' is noteworthy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Dictionaries, Social conditions, Slavery, Slaves, History
Places: Brazil
LC classification: HT1126 .S418 1997