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index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations; ‘‘t’’ signifies table. Afonso I (Kongo), Dom, 28, 254n31, 282n36 Afonso V (Portugal), Dom, 37, 255– 56n56; in Mahi Manuscript, 207 Agassiz, Elizabeth, 10, 14, 266n52 Agassiz, Louis, 10, 266n52 Agonli, 66; provenience group of, 178, 185, 191 Ajudá (Dahomey), 5, 55, 227 Akim, 47 Alfaias, 156, 175. See also Folias Algarve, 22 Allada, kingdom of, 45–46, 55 Ambaca provenience group, 84, 134t Angola, 28; bishop of, 264n36; distance to Brazil from, 264n7; Dutch occupation of, 42–45; group baptism in, 258n35; historiography of, 33–37; maps of, 76; Portuguese and, 27, 32; smallpox epidemic in, 48 Angola provenience group, 84, 128; alleged paganism in, 191; Bahia, 277n56; brotherhood expulsed from, 114; burials of, 134t; colonial documentation of, 39, 62, 69–70, 78, 90, 133; church construction and, 131; historiography of, 93, 254n28; king of, 139; in Mahi Manuscript, 191, 203–5; marriage and, 97; Mina and, 6, 127– 28, 165, 170–77, 182, 187, 213–14; obituaries for, 130t; population of, 77– 79, 96, 98, 131, 133, 136, 263n28; slave baptism and, 54t, 58t, 82, 84, 99t Angola slave trade, 13, 30, 41, 47, 53, 76, 255n47; baptism and, 258n35; colonial documentation of, 50–51, 81, 94– 95; inadequacy of, 58–59, 259n55; voyages of, 256n7 Ashanti: historiography of, 34, 255n51; kingdom of, 47; as slaves in Brazil and, 92 Avis dynasty, 37 Azevedo, João Lúcio de, 32–33 Bahia: Africans in, 4–5, 34, 54, 64, 95– 96, 152, 205, 250n15; black lay brotherhoods in, 276–77n50, 277n56; candombl é in, 1, 4, 35, 85, 250n10; Church of Nossa Senhora da Concei ção da Praia in, 232; indigenous slavery in, 263n25; pardos in, 74; slave baptism in, 262n8; slave marriage in, 310 | Index Bahia (cont.) 95–96;slavestoMinasGeraisand, 223–24;slavetradeand,34–35,48,57– 58,254n39,264n52;synodof1707in, 118–19,261n5.SeealsoJêjeprovenience group;Ladáproveniencegroup;Nagô proveniencegroup;Tobaccotrade Baltazar, King, 140 Baptism: ages of, 262n8; freed slaves and, 73–74, 262n11; slaves and, 9t, 81, 242t–47t, 258n35, 264n34 Baptism records, historical significance of, 7–8, 52–53, 67–68, 80, 269n39 Baroque Catholicism in Brazil, 119, 158 Barros, João de, 25 Barth, Fredrik, 86, 235 Bartolomé, Miguel Alberto, 87 Bastide, Roger, 35–36, 85, 91–92 Batuques, 142, 205, 221, 281n29 Begging, 199–200, 275n23 Benedictines, 267n4. See also Desterro Malheiros, Dom Frei Antônio do Benguela: French attack on, 268n15; as slave trade hub, 54, 76, 79, 81–82, 260n67; spelling of, 264n33 Benguela provenience group, 93, 130, 134t, 263n29, 270n43; burials of, 134t; in Mahi Manuscript, 204–5; slave baptism and, 54t, 58t, 84 Benin, Bight of, 3–4, 9–10; cultural diversity of, 89, 226; European slave trade in, 45, 47; in Mahi Manuscript, 218– 20; migrations and, 235; Portuguese alliances and, 26–27, 34, 92; slaves to Minas Gerais and, 49 Black brotherhoods in Brazil, 172–73; approval process and, 152, 181, 278n70; authorities vs., 267n6; begging and, 154, 158; church construction and, 117, 120–21, 177, 261n75, 268n25; cloaks and, 275n27; expulsion e√orts and, 62; funerals of members of, 126–27, 137, 160, 195, 276n50; identity in, 84, 277nn56–57; public processions of, 11, 100, 108–9, 114–15, 147, 267nn7–8; purchases of freedom and, 212; rhetoric and, 280n26; social significance of, 11–12, 64–65, 93, 146, 148, 150. See also Folias Black Men’s Regiment, 184, 231, 279n8 Boçal, 134t Bomsucesso, Nossa Senhora do, 267n7 Book of Baptisms of Whites, 73–74, 251n25 Book of Black Captives, 73–74, 224, 251n25, 262nn7–8, 264n34 Book of the Freed, 73 Boschi, Caio, 12 Bosman, William, 46–47 Boxer, Charles R., 33, 59–60, 93 Brancos, 68, 193, 260n68, 282n39. See also Livro de Batismo de Brancos Braudel, Fernand, 11, 251nn29–30 Brotherhood of Boa Morte, Bahia, 277n56 Brotherhood of Boa Morte of Pardo Men, 68, 121, 125, 158, 269n29, 270n48 Brotherhood of Bom Jesus do Cálice, 144–45, 272n67 Brotherhood of Our Lady of Assunçáo and Boa Morte, 121 Brotherhood of Our Lady of Lampadosa, 64, 121, 131, 137, 144, 272n67 Brotherhood of Our Lady of Lapa dos Mercadores, 64 Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Concei ção of Pardo Men, 68, 116, 268n25, 269n29 Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosário, Recife, 139, 142–43 Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosário and São Benedito of Black Men, 68, 114, 120, 137; funeral practice of, 125...

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