Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world /

Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-centu...

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Main Author:	Sweet, James H (James Hoke) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011], ©2011 Chapel Hill : c2011 Chapel Hill : ©2011 Chapel Hill : [2011]
Subjects:	Álvares, Domingos, > approximately 1710- Álvares, Domingos, > d. ca. 1710 Álvares, Domingos, > approximately 1710- Álvares, Domingos Álvares, Domingos Álvares, Domingos, > 1710- Geschichte 1727-1750 1700 - 1799 1700-1799 18th century Enslaved persons Enslaved persons > Brazil, Northeast > Biography Healers > Brazil, Northeast > Biography Healers > Portugal > Biography Inquisition > Portugal > History > 18th century Inquisition > Portugal Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric Slave trade > Africa, West > History > 18th century Slave-trade > Africa, West > History > 18th century Slaves > Brazil, Northeast > Biography Vodou Witchcraft Faith Healing Healers Heiler History Imperialismus Inquisition Sklavenhandel Slave trade Slaves Wodu Geistheilung Spiritual Therapies Religion and Medicine Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 18th century Africa, Western Brazil Portugal Africa, West Atlantic Ocean Region Brasilien Brazil, Northeast Northeast Brazil West Africa Westafrika Biography Biographie Biographies

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