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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463612903321

Titolo

Networks and trans-cultural exchange : slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 / / edited by David Richardson and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : BRILL, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28058-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, , 1570-0542 ; ; Volume 30

Disciplina

306.3/6209469

Soggetti

Slave trade - Portugal - History

Slave trade - Brazil - History

Slave trade - South Atlantic Ocean - History

Slave trade - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History

Electronic books.

Portugal Commerce History

Brazil Commerce History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / David Richardson and Ribeiro da Silva -- Introduction: The South Atlantic Slave Trade in Historical Perspective / David Richardson and Ribeiro da Silva -- Brazil’s Colonial Economy and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Supply and Demand / Gustavo Acioli Lopes -- Private Businessmen in the Angolan Trade, 1590's to 1780's: Insurance, Commerce and Agency / Filipa Ribeiro da Silva -- Angola and the Seventeenth-Century South Atlantic Slave Trade / Arlindo Manuel Caldeira -- Trade Networks in Benguela, 1700–1850 / Mariana P. Candido -- Slave Trade Networks in Eighteenth-Century Mozambique / José Capela -- Trans-Cultural Exchange at Malemba Bay: The Voyages of Fregatschip Prins Willem V, 1755 to 1771 / Stacey Sommerdyk -- Measuring Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Abolitionism in the South Atlantic, 1807–1860's / Roquinaldo Ferreira -- Bibliography / David Richardson and Ribeiro da Silva -- Index / David Richardson and



Ribeiro da Silva.

Sommario/riassunto

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.