Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition by Cécile Fromont

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition

Cécile Fromont

224 pages digital

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 This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and po...

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