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<p>This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic-based celebrations calls into question the long-held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity or else transformed its religious rituals into s

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Author

Fromont, Cécile

Publisher

The Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271084367

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Religion, Drama, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-25