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Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.Alvares treated many people across the Atlantic, yet healing was rarely a simple matter of remedying illness and disease. Through the language of health and healing, Alvares also address

Vodou. --- Witchcraft. --- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric. --- Inquisition --- Slave-trade --- Healers --- Slaves --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Magic medicine --- Medicine, Mystic --- Medicine, Occult --- Medicine, Spagiric --- Mystic medicine --- Occult medicine --- Spagiric medicine --- Spagyric medicine --- Alchemy --- Alternative medicine --- Magic --- Superstition --- Holy Office --- Autos-da-fé --- Curanderos --- Faith healers --- Mental healers --- Psychic healers --- Spiritual healers --- Traditional healers --- Healing --- Mental healing --- Spiritual healing --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Vaudou --- Vodun --- Voodoo (Religion) --- Voodooism --- Voodou --- Vooduism --- Voudon --- Voudooism --- Voudouism --- Voudoun --- Vudu --- Cults --- History --- Álvares, Domingos, --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- Atlantic Area --- Atlantic Region --- Slave trade --- Voodooism.