Angola served as the principal source of slaves for the Americas in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. These slaves embarked from ports controlled by the Portuguese, who …

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 …

Em meados do século dezessete, com a participação das tropas militares oriundas da
colônia do Brasil no episódio da expulsão dos holandeses da África centro-ocidental, os …

This paper investigates the multifaceted roles of women along the Catumbela River Basin,
the “breadbasket” of Benguela, during a particular moment of its long agricultural history. It …

In 1825-1826, Nicolau de Abreu Castelo Branco, then Governor of colonial Angola, bitterly
complained about" that abominable practice" in reference a forced marriage, most likely …

The significance of the slave trade from West Central Africa to Brazil during the eighteenth
century is evidenced not only by the analysis of quantitative data found in the extant …

Neste trabalho estudamos a demografia e a sociedadedo Presídio de Cambambe, em
Angola, que era então o posto mais avançado de penetração portuguesa a leste …

In recent years, studies of the African diaspora have demon-strated that Africans contributed
to the formation of societies in the “New World,” challenging the idea that the brutality of the …

Este estudo visa analisar a abordagem da líder quilombola Tereza de Benguela em fontes
oficiais, a saber, as memórias do provedor da Fazenda Filipe Coelho e a narrativa dos …

Why is it so difficult to examine slavery in the Muslim world? The overwhelming silence on
the subject raises questions about how slavery has been perceived in the past and why …