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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.
An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles
in changing societies, this book brings together the history of
Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It
explores trade, slavery and migrationin the context of the
Euro-African encounter. HONORABLE MENTION FOR AFRICAN STUDIES
REVIEW BEST AFRICA-FOCUSED ANTHOLOGY OR EDITED COLLECTION, 2019
While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies
and of Atlantic history, the role of women in Westand West Central
Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its
abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together
scholars from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show,
for the first time,the ways in which African women participated in
economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies.
Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of
wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty
traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to
Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities
offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and
Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions;
consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose
on women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the
factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility,both
spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its
curtailment. Mariana P. Candido is an Associate Professor of
History at the University of Notre Dame; Adam Jones recently
retired as Professor of African History and Culture History at the
University of Leipzig. In association with The Institute for
Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters,
University of Notre Dame
PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY An innovative and valuable
resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies,
this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and
gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and
migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter. While there
have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of
Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa
during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition
remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together scholars
from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show, for the
first time, the ways in which African women participated in
economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies.
Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of
wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty
traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to
Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities
offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and
Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions;
consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to imposeon
women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the
factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility, both
spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its
curtailment. Mariana P. Candido is an associate professor of
history at the University of Notre Dame; Adam Jones recently
retired as Professor of African History and Culture History at the
University of Leipzig. In association with The Institute for
theScholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters,
University of Notre Dame
An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles
in changing societies, this book brings together the history of
Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It
explores trade, slavery and migrationin the context of the
Euro-African encounter. HONORABLE MENTION FOR AFRICAN STUDIES
REVIEW BEST AFRICA-FOCUSED ANTHOLOGY OR EDITED COLLECTION, 2019
While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies
and of Atlantic history, the role of women in Westand West Central
Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its
abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together
scholars from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show,
for the first time,the ways in which African women participated in
economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies.
Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of
wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty
traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to
Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities
offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and
Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions;
consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose
on women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the
factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility,both
spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its
curtailment. Mariana P. Candido is an Associate Professor of
History at the University of Notre Dame; Adam Jones recently
retired as Professor of African History and Culture History at the
University of Leipzig. In association with The Institute for
Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters,
University of Notre Dame
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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