... Gerais Colonial Brazil popular healers African diaspora spirit possession The captaincy of Minas Gerais in the interior of Brazil developed into the world’s largest gold-producing region at the beginning of the eighteenth century. ¹ Fuelled by African slave labour, the economy of Minas...

... in emphasis in historical inquiry by concentrating on some of the works that have been seminal in the study of colonial Brazil. Five themes or trends are highlighted: the social history of the major groups within the colony (merchants, cane farmers and sugar barons, slaves, and the free population of color...

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... . Roller, Heather F. “ Autonomous Indian Nations and Peacemaking in Colonial Brazil. ” In The Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World , edited by Danna A. Levin Rojo and Cynthia Radding . New York: Oxford University Press, 2019 . Sommer, Barbara A. “Negotiated...