The story of Rufino : slavery, freedom, and Islam in the black Atlantic / João José Reis, Flávio dos Santos Gomes and Marcus J. M. de Carvalho ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill.
| Author/creator |
Reis, João José |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] |
| Description | ix, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History |
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| Other author/creator | Gomes, Flávio dos Santos. |
| Other author/creator | Carvalho, Marcus J. M. de. |
| Other author/creator | Gledhill, Sabrina. |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Uniform title | Alufá Rufino. English |
| Summary | A finalist for the Brazilian Book award and winner of the Casa de las America Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic was written by three experts in the history of slavery in Brazil and reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jose Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century. This book narrates the life of a Yoruba Muslim named Rufino Jose Maria, born in the kingdom of Oyo, in present-day Nigeria. Enslaved as an adolescent by a rival ethnic group, he was acquired by Brazilian slave traffickers and taken across the Atlantic. He spent eight years as a slave in the city of Salvador, in the northeast of Brazil, where he arrived in 1823. Rufino was later sold to the southernmost province of Rio Grande do Sul, where he became the slave of the local chief of police. Five years later, in 1835, he bought his freedom with money he saved as a hired-out slave in the streets of Salvador, in Bahia, and Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul. He may also have earned part of the money from making Islamic amulets, as he was a literate Muslim. |
| General note | Translation of: O alufá Rufino : tráfico, escravidão e liberdade no Atlântico Negro (c. 1822-c. 1853), published in 2010. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020288786 |
| ISBN | 9780190224363 |
| ISBN | 0190224363 |
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