Del 124 - African Studies

An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

Benguela and its Hinterland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Av Mariana Candido, New Jersey) Candido, Mariana (Princeton University

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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 transatlantic 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-03-29
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfrican Studies
Antal sidor388
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107011861

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Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
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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 Candido has written a major study of a slaving port and its linkages both to the South Atlantic system and to its hinterland. She makes a powerful argument about the way the slave trade shaped not only the development of Benguela but also African societies in its hinterland. She also makes an important argument on the role of female entrepreneurs in that process.' Martin Klein, University of Toronto