A vivid microhistory that brings together the histories of slavery, illegal slave trade ventures, and Islamic communities in West Africa and Brazil...Rufino's narrative also brings into focus the development of both syncretic and orthodox forms of Afro-Brazilian Islam in nineteenth century Brazil...Teacher-scholars in global history will find the book a useful volume for tying together threads from histories of Atlantic slavery, Islam in West Africa, Britainâs suppression of the slave trade, and the illegal slave trade in Brazil. Instructors will find The Story of Rufino appropriate for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars that involve these topics, as well as courses on the Black Atlantic.
Jo~ao Jos'e Reis is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal da Bahia and the author of Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia and Divining Slavery and Freedom, among other books.
Fl'avio dos Santos Gomes is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the author of Communaut'es d' esclaves insoumis, among other works on Brazilian and Caribbean slavery.
Marcus J. M. de Carvalho is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and the author of Liberdade: rotinas e rupturas do escravismo and other works on slavery in Brazil.