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‘Atlantic Nations’ and the Origins of Africans in Late-colonial Rio de Janeiro: New Evidence

2011; Routledge; Volume: 20; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10609164.2011.587266

1466-1802

Flávio dos Santos Gomes,

Caribbean and African Literature and Culture

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements This study was partly funded by the CNPq. I would like to thank the ad hoc reviewers of Colonial Latin American Review (CLAR) for their comments, critiques and suggestions. Translated from the Portuguese by H. Sabrina Gledhill. The author is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Adjunct Professor at the graduate History programs at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA). Archives Archives of the Metropolitan Curia of Rio de Janeiro National Archives / Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro National Library / Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro Notes 1 For a panoramic analysis, see Yelvington Citation2001 2 See Lovejoy Citation2001 and Mann Citation2001. A debate can be found in Caron Citation1997, Chambers Citation1997, and Northrup Citation2000. See also Gomez Citation1998, Midlo Hall Citation1992, and Thornton Citation1992. And criticism from Morgan Citation1977. 3 To give another perspective, I have borrowed the concept of 'Atlantic origins.' See Berlin Citation1996. For other analytical pathways, Linda M. Heywood's proposed debate (Citation2008) is also useful. 4 See tables 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, and pp. 80, 84, 105, 107, 122 and 126. 5 On the predominance of Central Africans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, see Miller Citation2008. 6 For the African aspect of the impact of Central Africans, both in the North Congo and southern and northern Angola, see Curto and Gervais Citation2002, Ferreira Citation1999, Miller Citation1997, Citation1999, and Thornton Citation2006. 7 For a debate on the concept of 'creolization,' see Trouillot Citation1988 and Price Citation2003.