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Networks and trans-cultural exchange
slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867
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...
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Engels | 278 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2015
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Jeremy Ball Angola's colossal lie
forced labor on a sugar plantation, 1913-1977
This is the first in-depth study of forced labor on a Portuguese-owned sugar plantation in colonial Angola. A prominent Portuguese civil servant dubbed the labor system in Angola because the reality so contradicted the law. Using extensive oral history interviews with former forced laborers, Jeremy Ball explains how Angolans experienced forced labor. Ball also interviews former Portuguese administrators to provide multiple perspectives about the transition to independence and the nationalization...
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Engels | 199 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2015
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