The Career of Domingo Martinez in the Bight of Benin 1833–64

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8976570
AutoresDavid A Ro (0000-0001-7426-9561, autor de correspondencia), David A Ross (0000-0001-8073-8053)
Año1965
Volumen6
Número1
Páginas79-90
Fecha de publicación1965-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002185370000534x
OpenAlexW2031619032
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30
Referencias citadas1

The career of Martinez provides a guide to the economic and political fortunes of the Brazilians in the coastal States of the Bight of Benin in the eighteen-forties, fifties, and early sixties. The first phase of his career took place while the Brazilian slave trade was still at its height; the second phase covered the successful Brazilian adaptation to the new commercial patterns involved in the introduction of the palm oil trade; the third phase took place when Brazilian commerce was in decline following increased British intervention and growing contact between European merchants and the African States. The graph of his political influence follows exactly that of his commercial affluence. In the early eighteen-forties he was a prominent figure in the confused politics of the Bight. In the late forties he was as influential in Dahomey as Francesco Felix De Souza had been in the previous decade. At the end of his life his importance had declined so much that he was unable to prevent the King of Dahomey entering into an agreement which would have dealt a final blow to his commercial position

Archaeology · Colonialism · Economic history · Ethnology · Geography · Intervention (counseling · Palm oil · Political science · Politics · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law