An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland

This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Benguela, located on the central coast of present-day Angola, was founded by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. In discussing the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on African societies, Mariana P. Candido explores the formation of new elites, the collapse of old states, and the emergence of new states. Placing Benguela in an Atlantic perspective, this study shows how events in the Caribbean and Brazil affected social and political changes on the African coast. This book emphasizes the importance of the South Atlantic as a space for the circulation of people, ideas, and crops.

Author: Mariana Candido
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/21/2015
Pages: 388
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781107529748

About the Author
Candido, Mariana: - 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.