Table of Contents:
  • Slavery, Africanos Libertos, and the question of Black presence in nineteenth-century Brazil
  • Salvador: the urban environment
  • The Bolsa de Mandinga and Calundu: Afro-Brazilian religion as fetish and Feitiçaria
  • "Dis continuity," context, and documentation: origins and interpretations of the religion
  • The nineteenth-century development of Candomblé
  • Healing and cultivating Axé: profiles of Candomblé leaders and communities
  • Networks of support, spaces of resistance: alternative orientations of Black life in nineteenth-century Bahia
  • Candomblé as Feitiço: reterritorialization, embodiment, and the alchemy of history in an Afro-Brazilian religion
  • Coda: abolition, freedom, and Candomblé as alternative Cidadania in Brazil.