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Slave Trade and Abolition - Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda (Hardcover)
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Slave Trade and Abolition - Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda (Hardcover)
Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora
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Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative
capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports
for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served
as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved
Africans. In the history of this diverse, wealthy city, the
gendered dynamics of the merchant community have frequently been
overlooked. Vanessa S. Oliveira traces how existing commercial
networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the
first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition
reveals how women known as donas (a term adapted from the title
granted to noble and royal women in the Iberian Peninsula) were
often important cultural brokers. Acting as intermediaries between
foreign and local people, they held high socioeconomic status and
even competed with the male merchants who controlled the trade.
Oliveira provides rich evidence to explore the many ways this
Luso-African community influenced its society. In doing so, she
reveals an unexpectedly nuanced economy with regard to the dynamics
of gender and authority.
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