Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
- ISBN-10
- 0807834491
- ISBN-13
- 9780807834497
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- James Hoke Sweet
Description
Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means fo
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