Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Contacts, competition, and copper: Benguela until 1710; 2. The rise of an Atlantic port; 3. Benguela and the South Atlantic World; 4. Mechanisms of enslavement; 5. Political reconfiguration of the Benguela hinterland, 1600–1850; 6. Conclusion.

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This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century.

About the Author

Mariana P. Candido is Assistant Professor at Princeton University. She is the author of Fronteras de Esclavización: Esclavitud, Comercio e Identidad en Benguela, 1780–1850 (2011) and co-edited Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora (2011) with Ana Lucia Araujo and Paul E. Lovejoy. Her articles have appeared in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Slavery and Abolition, African Economic History, the Portuguese Studies Review, Cahiers des Anneux de la Mémoire and Cahiers du Brésil Contemporain.

Reviews

'Mariana Candido has written a major study of a slaving port and its linkages both to the South Atlantic system and to its hinterland. She makes a powerful argument about the way the slave trade shaped not only the development of Benguela but also African societies in its hinterland. She also makes an important argument on the role of female entrepreneurs in that process.' Martin Klein, University of Toronto

'Mariana Candido's splendidly well-researched study of the Benguela slave trade is a major advance in our understanding of the history of Benguela, Angola's 'other' slaving port. It not only illuminates the history of the Portuguese presence in Angola but also helps to anchor the politics and history of the independent states of the Central Highlands of Angola in their regional context. It will be a starting point for studies of the region for years to come.' John Thornton, Boston University

'… provides valuable information about transatlantic trading networks and about the ethnic identity of enslaved Africans sent to Brazil.' International Journal of Maritime History