Networks and Trans-Cultural Exchange: Slave Trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867David Richardson, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva BRILL, 27. nov 2014 - 294 pages Winner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Studies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portuguese-Brazilian traders and other agents and their local African and mulatto trading partners. While reaffirming the centrality of slaving activities and of the networks that underpinned them, this collection of new essays shows that there were major Portuguese-Brazilian slave-trading activities in the South Atlantic outside Luanda as well as the Angolan-Brazil axes upon which historians usually focus. In drawing attention to these aspects of the South Atlantic commercial world, we are reminded that this was a world of change and also one in which Portuguese-Brazilian traders were unable to sustain in the face of competition from northern European rivals the dominant position in slave trading in Atlantic Africa that they had first established in the sixteenth century. |
Contents
The South Atlantic Slave Trade in Historical Perspective | 1 |
Supply and Demand | 31 |
Insurance Commerce and Agency | 71 |
4 Angola and the SeventeenthCentury South Atlantic Slave Trade | 101 |
5 Trade Networks in Benguela 17001850 | 143 |
6 Slave Trade Networks in EighteenthCentury Mozambique | 165 |
The Voyages of Fregatschip Prins Willem V 1755 to 1771 | 195 |
8 Measuring Short and LongTerm Impacts of Abolitionism in the South Atlantic 18071860s | 221 |
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