## Section II: Chapter 8  
Roquinaldo FERREIRA is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, specializing in African, Atlantic and Brazilian History at the University of Pennsylvania. Before 2018, he taught at the University of Virginia (2005-2012) and at Brown University, where he held the Vasco da Gama chair and was associate director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.  
Carlos da SILVA Jr has a Master's in Social History from the Federal University of Bahia (2011) and a Ph.D. from the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. He has studied History with an emphasis on the History of Colonial Brazil, mainly working on the following themes: slavery, African diaspora, History of Bahia, 18th century. His main areas of interest are the African diaspora and the construction of ethnic identities in 18th-century Bahia. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at the State University of Feira de Santana since 2018.