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acknowledgments This book is the result of a long research process that would have been impossiblewithoutthehelpofagreatmanypeopleandinstitutionstowhomIwould like to express my gratitude. First, I would like to give my thanks to those more elderly individuals who very patiently shared their time and wisdom with me: the late Humbono Vicente Paulo dos Santos, the late Gaiaku Luiza Franquelina da Rocha, and her brother the late Eugenio Rodrigues da Rocha, the late Ogã Kuto Ambrosio Bispo Conceição, the late Ogã Impe Bernardino Ferreira, andAgbagigan Everaldo Conceição Duarte. I would also like to thank the members of the Jeje congregations and those of other candomblés who accepted my presence in their ceremonies, as well as all of those members of the povo-de-santo* who, at some time or another, helped with my research, and whom it would not be possible to list individually here. Among scholars, I would like the thank the invaluable help and support of Professors João José Reis and Vivaldo da Costa Lima, Ambassador Alberto da Costa e Silva, Maria Inês Cortes de Oliveira, Renato da Silveira, Luiz Mott, Mariza de Carvalho Soares, Silvia Hunold Lara, and the members of the research group Escravidão e Invenção da Liberdade (Slavery and the Invention ofLiberty)ofthePostgraduatePrograminHistoryattheUniversidadeFederal daBahia(FederalUniversityofBahia),whereIpresentedpreliminaryversions of chapters 1–3. I am equally grateful to my colleagues in the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Bahia, particularly Maria Rosário de Carvalho, Graça Druck, and Miriam Rabello, who consistently provided a stimulating academic environment for my research. I am also grateful for the help of other scholars and friends, such as Hypolite Brice Sogbossi, Roger Sansi, Lisa Earl Castillo, Luiz Cláudio Nascimento, Fernando Araújo, and Peter Cohen. I would also like to thank the staff members at the Arquivo Regional de Cachoeira (Cachoeira Regional Archive), Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (State of Bahia Public Archive), and the Instituto Geográfico Histórico da Bahia (Historical and Geographic Institute of Bahia) for their help with my documentary research. My thanks also to Sheila Cavalcante dos Santos for her patient revision of my Portuguese, and to Bete Capinan for her efforts in finding resources for the publication of my original Portuguese manuscript. xx acknowledgments The research behind this book would not have been possible without the Visiting Researcher Grant I received from the CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnologia [Brazilian National Center for Scientific and Technological Development]) from 1999 to 2002 and a previous Visiting Professor Grant bestowed by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior [a Brazilian federal agency for the support and evaluation of graduate education]) from 1998 to 1999. Also, in 2003, the FAPESB(Fundação deAmparo àPesquisadoEstadodaBahia[ResearchSupport Foundation of the State of Bahia]) granted me funds toward the publication of this work. I am grateful to these Brazilian institutions for sponsoring my research. As for the English edition, I am particularly thankful to James Sweet and João José Reis for their initial support of the proposal and to Elaine Maisner, senior executive editor at the University of North Carolina Press, for accepting it.IamalsogratefultoProfessorPauloFranchetti,headofEditoradaUnicamp, for granting the rights for the English publication. Also, my sincere thanks to Richard Vernon for the translation and his commitment through these years to bringing the project to a good port despite its many challenges. Michael Iyanaga also read two chapters and made valuable suggestions. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the support of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, where I spent the 2010–11 academic year, for allowing me to devote some of my time to the revision of the English manuscript. ...

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