African and the Americas Interconnections During the Slave Trade

Africa and the Americas is a collection of recent scholarly work addressing pertinent themes and using innovative approaches and methodologies to advance research on the "Atlantic World" by demonstrating how the slave trade facilitated the creation of one world where before there had been many. The volume includes severeal leading scholars from Brazil, North America and Africa. Because of its trans-Atlantic, comparative and inter-disciplinary perspective, it will appeal to scholars and students alike.