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List of Illustrations vii

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xii

Foreword xiii

1 Identifying Enslaved Africans in the African Diaspora Paul E. Lovejoy 1

2 Cimarron Ethnicity and Cultural Adaptation in the Spanish Domains of the Circum-Caribbean, 1503-1763 Jane Landers 30

3 Tracing Igbo into the African Diaspora Douglas B. Chambers 55

4 Regla de Ocha-Ifa and the Construction of Cuban Identity Christine Ayorinde 72

5 Cultural Zones in the Era of the Slave Trade: Exploring the Yoruba Connection with the Anlo-Ewe Sandra E. Greene 86

6 Texts of Enslavement: Fon and Yoruba Vocabularies from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Brazil Olabiyi Yai 102

7 Ethnic and Religious Plurality among Yoruba Immigrants in Trinidad in the Nineteenth Century Maureen Warner-Lewis 113

8 Portraits of African Royalty in Brazil Alberto da Costa e Silva 129

9 Slavery, Marriage and Kinship in Rural Rio de Janeiro, 1790-1830 Manolo Garcia Florentino Jose Roberto Goes 137

10 Female Enslavement in the Caribbean and Gender Ideologies Hilary McD. Beckles 163

11 Those Who Remained Behind: Women Slaves in Nineteenth-century Yorubaland Francine Shields 183

12 'She Voluntarily Hath Come': A Gambian Woman Trader in Colonial Georgia in the Eighteenth Century Lillian Ashcraft-Eason 202

Bibliography 222

Index 239