This article explores how some enslaved Black Africans litigated for their freedom in Spanish
royal courts in the sixteenth century on the basis that—as Christians—they had been …

O artigo examina processos de captura e escravização na região de Benguela, África centro
ocidental. Apesar de a historiografia sobre escravidão e o tráfico de escravos enfatizar a …

Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West
Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the …

A reassessment of the institution of pawnship in Africa for the period from the seventeenth
century to the nineteenth century tightens the reference to situations in which individuals …

This article explores the nature and expansion of slavery in Benguela, in West Central
Africa, during the nineteenth century, engaging with the scholarship on second slavery …

S'il est vrai que l'Angola fut le grand réservoir de main-d'œuvre américaine et que la traite y
a occupé une place majeure, il est impossible de faire abstraction du fait que les sociétés …

Women represented the majority of the enslaved in western Africa, where they were valued
for their productive and reproductive capacities. Enslaved women performed agricultural …

The Portuguese were keen slave traders on the west central coast of Africa in the early
modern period, but governors in Angola appear to have been increasingly unhappy about …

The origins of slaves leaving Angola provide a way for understanding who Africans
regarded as eligible for enslavement and sale across the Atlantic. Historians have long …

This article identifies new pathways for integrating African perspectives into debates about
the historical relationship between slavery and capitalism. It focuses extensively on the work …