An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-01186-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 124, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 779 g

Reihe: African Studies

This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Benguela, located on the central coast of present-day Angola, was founded by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. In discussing the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on African societies, Mariana P. Candido explores the formation of new elites, the collapse of old states and the emergence of new states. Placing Benguela in an Atlantic perspective, this study shows how events in the Caribbean and Brazil affected social and political changes on the African coast. This book emphasizes the importance of the South Atlantic as a space for the circulation of people, ideas and crops.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Candido, Mariana

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Deltas, Flussmündungen, Küstenregionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Contacts, competition, and copper: Benguela until 1710; 2. The rise of an Atlantic port; 3. Benguela and the South Atlantic World; 4. Mechanisms of enslavement; 5. Political reconfiguration of the Benguela hinterland, 1600-1850; 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Candido, Mariana
Mariana P. Candido is Assistant Professor at Princeton University. She is the author of Fronteras de Esclavización: Esclavitud, Comercio e Identidad en Benguela, 1780-1850 (2011) and co-edited Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora (2011) with Ana Lucia Araujo and Paul E. Lovejoy. Her articles have appeared in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Slavery and Abolition, African Economic History, the Portuguese Studies Review, Cahiers des Anneux de la Mémoire and Cahiers du Brésil Contemporain.

Mariana P. Candido is Assistant Professor at Princeton University. She is the author of Fronteras de Esclavización: Esclavitud, Comercio e Identidad en Benguela, 1780–1850 (2011) and co-edited Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora (2011) with Ana Lucia Araujo and Paul E. Lovejoy. Her articles have appeared in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Slavery and Abolition, African Economic History, Portuguese Studies Review, Cahiers des Anneux de la Mémoire, and Cahiers du Brésil Contemporain.