Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora Book

	List of Contributors
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Central Africa: Society, Culture, and the Slave Trade
1	Central Africa During the Era of the Slave Trade, c. 1490s-1850s	21
2	Religious and Ceremonial Life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500-1700	71
3	Portuguese into African: The Eighteenth-Century Central African Background to Atlantic Creole Cultures	91
Pt. 2	Central Africans in Brazil
4	Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780-1835	117
5	Who Is the King of Congo? A New Look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil	153
6	The Great Porpoise-Skull Strike: Central African Water Spirits and Slave Identity in Early-Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro	183
Pt. 3	Central Africans in Haiti and Spanish America
7	Twins, Simbi Spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti	211
8	The Central African Presence in Spanish Maroon Communities	227
9	Central African Popular Christianity and the Making of Haitian Vodou Religion	243
10	Kongolese Catholic Influences on Haitian Popular Catholicism: A Sociohistorical Exploration	265
Pt. 4	Central Africans in North America and the Caribbean
11	"Walk in the Feenda": West-Central Africans and the Forest in the South Carolina-Georgia Lowcountry	289
12	Liberated Central Africans in Nineteenth-Century Guyana	319
13	Combat and the Crossing of the Kalunga	353
	Index	371