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"""This microhistory of the Atlantic world puts into stark relief Brazil's manifold and complex connections with Africa. By brilliantly reconstructing the life of a single individual, the authors provide a multilayered and broad canvas of the South Atlantic during the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. This is social history at its best."" -- Roquinaldo Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania ""A brilliant study, The Story of Rufino explores the blurred lines between slavery and freedom for black men in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World and the pervasive role of the transatlantic slave trade in the Brazilian economy. It also stresses the role of violence and fear in terrorizing black people. Rufino had a life replete of adventures and misadventures in a turbulent Atlantic. Thanks to the research of Reis, Gomes, and Carvalho, readers can follow the paths of an exceptional Muslim man, whose life was not so different from other enslaved Africans."" -- Mariana P. Candido, Mariana P. Candido, author of An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland ""This tour de force biography of an African-born enslaved man who purchased his freedom and became involved in the slave trade complicates our understanding of the Atlantic slavery. Rufino's exceptional and cosmopolitan trajectory, in a world where slavery was pervasive, is a lesson of cultural resistance and resilience."" -- Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University ""Three of the leading historians of slavery and the African diaspora in the South Atlantic have teamed up to bring us the remarkable story of Rufino José Maria, also known as Abuncare. Through painstaking research in a vast range of sources, the authors enable us to follow Rufino's travels across the Atlantic and back, through slavery and a degree of freedom, as both a victim and a participant in the transatlantic trade. Rufino's story is, in many respects, an exceptional one, but his struggles, compromises, and accomplishments as an African and a Muslim vividly illuminate the many worlds he inhabited during the waning decades of a trade whose tragic imprint is still visible on both sides of the Atlantic."" -- Barbara Weinstein, New York University"

Three of the leading historians of slavery and the African diaspora in the South Atlantic have teamed up to bring us the remarkable story of Rufino Jose Maria, also known as Abuncare. Through painstaking research in a vast range of sources, the authors enable us to follow Rufino's travels across the Atlantic and back, through slavery and a degree of freedom, as both a victim and a participant in the transatlantic trade. Rufino's story is, in many respects, an exceptional one, but his struggles, compromises, and accomplishments as an African and a Muslim vividly illuminate the many worlds he inhabited during the waning decades of a trade whose tragic imprint is still visible on both sides of the Atlantic. * Barbara Weinstein, New York University * This tour de force biography of an African-born enslaved man who purchased his freedom and became involved in the slave trade complicates our understanding of the Atlantic slavery. Rufino's exceptional and cosmopolitan trajectory, in a world where slavery was pervasive, is a lesson of cultural resistance and resilience. * Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University * A brilliant study, The Story of Rufino explores the blurred lines between slavery and freedom for black men in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World and the pervasive role of the transatlantic slave trade in the Brazilian economy. It also stresses the role of violence and fear in terrorizing black people. Rufino had a life replete of adventures and misadventures in a turbulent Atlantic. Thanks to the research of Reis, Gomes, and Carvalho, readers can follow the paths of an exceptional Muslim man, whose life was not so different from other enslaved Africans. * Mariana P. Candido, Mariana P. Candido, author of An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland * This microhistory of the Atlantic world puts into stark relief Brazil's manifold and complex connections with Africa. By brilliantly reconstructing the life of a single individual, the authors provide a multilayered and broad canvas of the South Atlantic during the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. This is social history at its best. * Roquinaldo Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania *

This microhistory of the Atlantic world puts into stark relief Brazil's manifold and complex connections with Africa. By brilliantly reconstructing the life of a single individual, the authors provide a multilayered and broad canvas of the South Atlantic during the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. This is social history at its best. -- Roquinaldo Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania A brilliant study, The Story of Rufino explores the blurred lines between slavery and freedom for black men in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World and the pervasive role of the transatlantic slave trade in the Brazilian economy. It also stresses the role of violence and fear in terrorizing black people. Rufino had a life replete of adventures and misadventures in a turbulent Atlantic. Thanks to the research of Reis, Gomes, and Carvalho, readers can follow the paths of an exceptional Muslim man, whose life was not so different from other enslaved Africans. -- Mariana P. Candido, Mariana P. Candido, author of An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland This tour de force biography of an African-born enslaved man who purchased his freedom and became involved in the slave trade complicates our understanding of the Atlantic slavery. Rufino's exceptional and cosmopolitan trajectory, in a world where slavery was pervasive, is a lesson of cultural resistance and resilience. -- Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University Three of the leading historians of slavery and the African diaspora in the South Atlantic have teamed up to bring us the remarkable story of Rufino Jose Maria, also known as Abuncare. Through painstaking research in a vast range of sources, the authors enable us to follow Rufino's travels across the Atlantic and back, through slavery and a degree of freedom, as both a victim and a participant in the transatlantic trade. Rufino's story is, in many respects, an exceptional one, but his struggles, compromises, and accomplishments as an African and a Muslim vividly illuminate the many worlds he inhabited during the waning decades of a trade whose tragic imprint is still visible on both sides of the Atlantic. -- Barbara Weinstein, New York University

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"João José Reis is Professor of History at the ""Three of the leading historians of slavery and the African diaspora in the South Atlantic have teamed up to bring us the remarkable story of Rufino José Maria, also known as Abuncare. Through painstaking research in a vast range of sources, the authors enable us to follow Rufino's travels across the Atlantic and back, through slavery and a degree of freedom, as both a victim and a participant in the transatlantic trade. Rufino's story is, in many respects, an exceptional one, but his struggles, compromises, and accomplishments as an African and a Muslim vividly illuminate the many worlds he inhabited during the waning decades of a trade whose tragic imprint is still visible on both sides of the Atlantic."" -- Barbara Weinstein, New York University |k Y Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia and Divining Slavery and Freedom, among other books. Flávio dos Santos Gomes is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the author of Communautés d'esclaves insoumis, among other works on Brazilian and Caribbean slavery. Marcus J. M. de Carvalho is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and the author of Liberdade: rotinas e rupturas do escravismo and other works on slavery in Brazil."

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