José C. Curto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is assistant professor of history at York University, associate editor of the Portuguese Studies Review, and author of Alcoól e Escravos: O comércio das bebibas alcoólicas e o seu impacto em Angola durante o tráfico de escravos, c. 1480-1830 (Lisbon: Editora Vulgata, Colecção "Tempos e Espaços Africanos," 2003).

“[T]he most provocative of a new historiographical trend ...essays in Curto and Lovejoy’s volume succeed admirably in applying new data to questions about the complex connections between Africa and Brazil. Several boldly engage important historiographical debates....One of the great strengths of the collection is its recognition that cultural and economic exchanges were not unidirectional; Africans influenced American societies but Americans also influence Africa.”