The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945

The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the natural landscape and to Indigenous peoples. Relying on this world as a repository for traditions, discourses, and strategies that they retrieved especially in moments of conflict, Afro Brazilians

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