Mariana Candido

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Mariana P. Candido specializes in the history of West Central Africa during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Her interests include the history of slavery; forced migration and labor; the South Atlantic world; and the African diaspora. She is the vice-chair of the Lusophone African Studies Organization and a network professor of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. She is also co-investigator in the projects “The Angolan Roots of Capoeira,” University of Essex/UK, and the "Escravidão e Formas de Sociabilidade: Escravos africanos em Mariana/MG, 1700-1750,” Universidade Federal Fluminense/Brazil. Candido's publications include Fronteras de Esclavización: Esclavitud, Comercio e Identidad en Benguela, 1780-1850(Mexico: Colegio de Mexico Press, 2011); Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, with Ana Lucia Araújo and Paul Lovejoy (Africa World Press, 2011); and articles in Slavery and Abolition, African Economic History, Portuguese Studies Review, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cahiers des Anneux de la Mémoire, and Brésil (s). Sciences Humaines et Sociales.

Crossing Memories

October 14, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15045576-crossing-memories Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, with Ana Lucia Araújo and Paul Lovejoy (Africa World…

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