Black Brotherhoods in North America: Afro-Iberian and West-Central African Influences
by Jeroen Dewulf Abstract Building on the acknowledgement that many Africans, predominantly in West-Central Africa, had already adopted certain Portuguese cultural and religious elements before they were shipped to the Americas as slaves, this article argues that syncretic Afro-Iberian elements must also have existed among slave communities outside of the Iberian realm in the American diaspora. […]
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