Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One

1. European Origins of the Rosary Devotion of the Blacks

2. Africans in the Brotherhoods

Part Two

3. Early Formation of the Brotherhoods, 1690–1750

4. The Late Colonial Period, 1750–1822

5. The Brotherhoods in the Brazilian Empire

Part Three

6. Congados and Reinados, 1888–1990

7. Voices of the Congadeiros

Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Elizabeth W. Kiddy is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Albright College.

Reviews

"This well-researched, thoroughly grounded study on the black Rosary brotherhoods of Minas Gerais is a pleasure to read....Among the book's pleasures are introductory chapters surveying the history of the Rosary, Catholic lay organizations, the veneration of Our Lady of the Rosary, and Portuguese-African interaction." - J. Rosenthal, Choice "In Blacks of the Rosary Elizabeth Kiddy makes a most welcome addition to the history of the African diaspora in the New World. She skillfully connects the lives, ceremonies, and celebrations of Afro-Brazilians in colonial Minas Gerais to those of their modern urban descendants in the still racially identified communities of present-day Belo Horizonte. She carefully traces the evolution and development of the brotherhoods and congados from their origins to the present and illuminates a fascinating process of negotiation and adaptation through which Afro-Brazilians sought to establish and define their own community identities." - Kathleen J. Higgins, California State University, Sacramento"