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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | African studies series ;
124. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Table of contents only Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Contacts, competition, and copper: Benguela until 1710
- The rise of an Atlantic port, 1710-1850
- Benguela and the South Atlantic World
- Mechanisms of enslavement
- Political reconfiguration of the Benguela hinterland, 1600-1850.