Re Brazil/Africa:
A good place to start is with Joao Jose Reis, SLAVE REBELLION IN BRAZIL:
THE MUSLIM UPRISING OF 1835 IN BAHIA (Johns Hopkins, 1993). Filled with
interesting material on African and Afro-Brazilian cultures in and around
Salvador, Bahia. Check the bibliography for additional material.
Mary Karasch, SLAVE LIFE IN RIO DE JANEIRO, 1808-1850 (Princeton, 1987) is
fascinating.
See also the works of Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso, some of which are
available in English.
Good for instructional purposes is a film entitled BAHIA: AFRICA IN THE
AMERICAS, which has always worked great in my graduate and undergraduate
classes.
Also of use for instructional purposes is Robert Edger Conrad, CHILDREN OF
GOD'S FIRE: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF BLACK SLAVERY IN BRAZIL.
If you are interested in slavery and the slave trade, you must, of course,
consult Joseph C. Miller, WAY OF DEATH; Stuart B. Schwartz, SUGAR PLANTATIONS
IN THE FORMATION OF BRAZILIAN SOCIETY; Stuart B. Schwartz, SLAVES, PEASANTS
AND REBELS. Bibliographies in these works will point you in many directions.
Finally, there is a fair amount of material on Brazil in John Thornton,
AFRICA AND AFRICANS IN THE MAKING OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1400-1680 (Cambridge).