Machine generated contents note: -- introduction Kristin Mann and Edna G. Bay -- Shifting Paradigms in the Study of the African Diaspora -- and of Atlantic History and Culture Kristin Mann -- The Evolution of the Brazilian Community in Ouidah Robin Law -- Protection, Political Exile, and the Atlantic Slave-Trade: -- History and Collective Memory in Dahomey Edna G. Bay -- Some Reflections on the Brazilian Legacy in -- Dahomey Elis6e Soumonni -- The Identity, Contributions, and Ideology of the -- Aguda (Afro-Brazilians) of the Gulf of Benin: -- A Reinterpretation Olabiyi Babalola Yai -- Buying and Selling Korans in Nineteenth-Century -- Rio de Janeiro Alberto Da Costa E Silva -- The Jeje in the Tambor de Mina of Mamrnhao -- and in the Candomble of Bahia Luis Nicolau Par6s -- Candomble in Nineteenth-Century Bahia: Priests, -- Followers, Clients Jojo Jose Reis -- Africa in the Reinvention of Nineteenth-Century -- Afro-Bahian Identity Kim D. Butler -- Notes on Contributors -- Index