M P Candido
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 41983 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M P Candido |
| PRENOMES | M P |
| SOBRENOME | Candido |
| ASSINATURA | CANDIDO M P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8186-801X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Law and History in Angola
Court records are rich primary sources to social historians, and much attention has been paid to these types of documents in different African territories. In most cases only summaries have survived, but in Angola complete proceedings have been preserved. Examining the court case collection available at the Benguela District Court, we discuss its strengths and methodological challenges, and present possible themes for future research. The use of …
Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola
Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884–5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonst…
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney—50 Years On
In order to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (HEUA) by the Guyanese historian Walter Rodney, the editors of AEH have decided to commission a series of short essays by scholars to consider the genesis, legacy, and ongoing relevance of Rodney’s book
Capitalism and Africa
Scholars of capitalism have been debating the connection between mercantilism, colonialism, slavery, the slave trade, and capitalism for several decades.1 Much attention has been devoted to the plantation economy, industrialization, financial risks, and markets, mostly focusing on the Anglo-American world. Most studies only refer to societies in the Global South, particularly African societies, as arenas for the global expansion of capitalism.2 A…
The Status of Enslaved Women in West Central Africa, 1800–1830
Women represented the majority of the enslaved in western Africa, where they were valued for their productive and reproductive capacities. Enslaved women performed agricultural and domestic work, retail sales, and contributed to extend kinship groups bearing children fathered by their masters. In his work on the Sokoto Caliphate, Paul E. Lovejoy emphasized the sexual dimension in the enslavement of women. Lovejoy has argued that although women pr…
The Status of Enslaved Women in West Central Africa, 1800–1830
Women represented the majority of the enslaved in western Africa, where they were valued for their productive and reproductive capacities. Enslaved women performed agricultural and domestic work, retail sales, and contributed to extend kinship groups bearing children fathered by their masters. In his work on the Sokoto Caliphate, Paul E. Lovejoy emphasized the sexual dimension in the enslavement of women. Lovejoy has argued that although women pr…
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
Understanding African women’s access to landed property in nineteenth-century Benguela
This study examines the mechanisms that African women employed to accumulate wealth and property during the nineteenth century. After the ban on slave exports in 1836, West Central Africans looked for new economic activities and shifted their focus and energy to the trade in commodities as legitimate commerce expanded in Benguela. In the process, African women achieved new social and economic positions in the colonial setting, accumulating depend…
The Expansion of Slavery in Benguela During the Nineteenth Century
This article explores the nature and expansion of slavery in Benguela, in West Central Africa, during the nineteenth century, engaging with the scholarship on second slavery. Robert Palmer, Eric Hobsbawm, and Janet Polasky have framed the nineteenth century as the age of contagious liberty, yet, in Benguela, and elsewhere along the African coast, the institution of slavery expanded, in part to attend to the European and North American demand for …
Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data
In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement …
Women in Angola
European colonial powers established the contemporary boundaries of Angola during the Conference of Berlin (1884–1885). However, colonialism dates to the 15th century, when Portuguese merchants first contacted the Kingdom of Kongo along the Congo River and established early settlements in Luanda (1575) and Benguela (1617). Parts of the territories that became known as Angola in the early 20th century have a long history of interaction with the ou…
Cores, classificações e categorias sociais
"O racismo tem uma história" - Entrevista com Silvia Hunold Lara
African Women
Walter C. Rucker. Gold Coast Diasporas
Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power is an important contribution to the social death, creolization, and ethnogenesis debate in Atlantic history and African diaspora history. Focusing on the Coromantee/Akan of the Gold Coast, Walter C. Rucker examines the historical shifts the group faced during the era of the slave trade. The author proposes that rather than an ethnolinguistic label or a regional identifier, the term “Coromantee” r…
Cross-cultural exchange in the Atlantic world
Based on research done in Angola, Portugal and Brazil, Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World is a detailed study of the people who crossed the South Atlantic, some of them voluntarily, most
Trade Networks in Benguela, 1700–1850
This chapter focuses on trade networks in Benguela, including evolution of the merchant community in Benguela during the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries. It also focuses on Atlantic trade network that connected Benguela and its population to other parts of the world, and also on the internal routes that linked the littoral and the hinterland. The chapter explores the introduction of new consumer practices in central high…
African Women in Ecclesiastical Documents, Benguela, 1760–1860
Based on the analysis of ecclesiastical documents, this study explores how African women lived in the port town of Benguela from about 1760 to 1860. This period includes the height of the transatlantic slave trade, its decline and abolition, and the slow shift towards legitimate trade. Through specific cases revealed in baptism, marriage and burial records, the article presents short stories and explores African women’s interaction with foreign m…
Women, Family, and Landed Property in Nineteenth-Century Benguela
In past decades, new studies have explored the role of gender in the shaping of colonial societies on the African continent. Yet, most of the scholarship has focused on the twentieth century and not much attention has been paid to previous periods. Records from Benguela allow us to see the role of African women in an earlier era, their access to land and labor, and to explore the impact of new forms of production and control. In this study, I exp…
African Women’s Access and Rights to Property in the Portuguese Empire
The study of African women’s access and rights to property in the Portuguese empire allows us to historicize African women’s experience with wealth and poverty. Since the 1960s, studies have brought attention to the reality that poverty in Africa affects women more profoundly than it does men.[1
Engendering West Central African History
This study stresses the role of common women in the history of Benguela in the nineteenth century. I emphasize the importance of parish records to unveil sectors of the society that tend to be invisible in the history of Angola, such as farmers, poor women who acted as vendors in the urban centers, and particularly, enslaved women. While some attention has been paid to merchant women, the so-called donas , and on political leaders, particularly Q…
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Vulnerability of Free Blacks in Benguela, Angola, 1780–1830
Through the analysis of Portuguese colonial records, this chapter examines mechanisms of capture around Benguela and the ability of Africans to claim freedom. It focuses on the port of Benguela, a Portuguese colony since 1617, from where at least 679,000 people were exported to the Americas, mainly to Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, in Brazil. The chapter is a contribution to the debate on how people were enslaved, focusing on Benguela and its interior…
Public Memory of Slavery. Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic
Rebecca Shumway. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Much has been written about the rise of new states in West Africa during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Rebecca Shumway's book recovers the history of people in the central coast of the Gold Coast who remained outside of the control of centralized states for most of the eighteenth century. In the process, she provides much information about the port of Anomabo, expanding our knowledge about African ports more generally and historicizin…
Benguela and the Atlantic world. Map by Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Princeton’s GIS and Map Librarian
South Atlantic Exchanges
This article examines the role of Brazilian-born individuals in shaping the social and economic landscape of Benguela, Angola, during the period from 1650 to 1850. It explores how these individuals, often of mixed Portuguese and African descent, navigated the complex dynamics of the South Atlantic trade network, acting as intermediaries between Portuguese colonial authorities, African merchants, and indigenous populations. The study highlights th…
African Freedom Suits and Portuguese Vassal Status
This article focuses on the vulnerability of free blacks in Benguela, in West Central Africa, during the first decades of the nineteenth century at the height of slave exports. After the British abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, slavers moved south of the Equator leading to the pressure for more captives and the expansion of violence around Benguela. Focusing on the case of a free black woman, Dona Leonor de Carvalho Fonseca, th…
Different Slave Journeys
Few African sailors boarded transatlantic slave ships, but their importance exceeded their numbers. They played important roles in the operation of the slave trade, especially along the African coast during slave acquisition. Based on Portuguese ship licenses, this study discusses the presence of African enslaved seamen on board Portuguese vessels. Although in captivity, slave sailors enjoyed some degree of freedom denied most slaves during the A…
Engendering West Central African History
This study stresses the role of common women in the history of Benguela in the nineteenth century. I emphasize the importance of parish records to unveil sectors of the society that tend to be invisible in the history of Angola, such as farmers, poor women who acted as vendors in the urban centers, and particularly, enslaved women. While some attention has been paid to merchant women, the so-called donas , and on political leaders, particularly Q…
The Expansion of Slavery in Benguela During the Nineteenth Century
This article explores the nature and expansion of slavery in Benguela, in West Central Africa, during the nineteenth century, engaging with the scholarship on second slavery. Robert Palmer, Eric Hobsbawm, and Janet Polasky have framed the nineteenth century as the age of contagious liberty, yet, in Benguela, and elsewhere along the African coast, the institution of slavery expanded, in part to attend to the European and North American demand for …
O limite tênue entre liberdade e escravidão em Benguela durante a era do comércio transatlântico
O artigo examina processos de captura e escravização na região de Benguela, África centro ocidental. Apesar de a historiografia sobre escravidão e o tráfico de escravos enfatizar a guerra como principal mecanismo de captura, vários casos indicam que um número significativo de indivíduos foram sequestrados por pessoas conhecidas. Além disso, foram capturados em localidades sob o domínio português, próximos à costa, relativizando a ideia de que na …
Aguida Gonçalves da Silva, une dona à Benguela à la fin du xviiie siècle
Cet article examine le rôle des femmes de l'élite commerciale du port de Benguela (Afrique centrale occidentale) au XVIIIe siècle. En se mariant avec des négociants étrangers et avec des administrateurs de la colonie, ces marchandes confortaient leur rôle d'intermédiaires en facilitant le contact entre trafiquants d'esclaves et élites politiques et commerciales de l'intérieur. La trajectoire de vie de dona Aguida Gonçalves da Silva dévoile le rôl…
The Status of Enslaved Women in West Central Africa, 1800–1830
Women represented the majority of the enslaved in western Africa, where they were valued for their productive and reproductive capacities. Enslaved women performed agricultural and domestic work, retail sales, and contributed to extend kinship groups bearing children fathered by their masters. In his work on the Sokoto Caliphate, Paul E. Lovejoy emphasized the sexual dimension in the enslavement of women. Lovejoy has argued that although women pr…
Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data
In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement …
African Women
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
Women in Angola
European colonial powers established the contemporary boundaries of Angola during the Conference of Berlin (1884–1885). However, colonialism dates to the 15th century, when Portuguese merchants first contacted the Kingdom of Kongo along the Congo River and established early settlements in Luanda (1575) and Benguela (1617). Parts of the territories that became known as Angola in the early 20th century have a long history of interaction with the ou…
African Women in Ecclesiastical Documents, Benguela, 1760–1860
Based on the analysis of ecclesiastical documents, this study explores how African women lived in the port town of Benguela from about 1760 to 1860. This period includes the height of the transatlantic slave trade, its decline and abolition, and the slow shift towards legitimate trade. Through specific cases revealed in baptism, marriage and burial records, the article presents short stories and explores African women’s interaction with foreign m…
Women, Family, and Landed Property in Nineteenth-Century Benguela
In past decades, new studies have explored the role of gender in the shaping of colonial societies on the African continent. Yet, most of the scholarship has focused on the twentieth century and not much attention has been paid to previous periods. Records from Benguela allow us to see the role of African women in an earlier era, their access to land and labor, and to explore the impact of new forms of production and control. In this study, I exp…
African Women’s Access and Rights to Property in the Portuguese Empire
The study of African women’s access and rights to property in the Portuguese empire allows us to historicize African women’s experience with wealth and poverty. Since the 1960s, studies have brought attention to the reality that poverty in Africa affects women more profoundly than it does men.[1
Different Slave Journeys
Few African sailors boarded transatlantic slave ships, but their importance exceeded their numbers. They played important roles in the operation of the slave trade, especially along the African coast during slave acquisition. Based on Portuguese ship licenses, this study discusses the presence of African enslaved seamen on board Portuguese vessels. Although in captivity, slave sailors enjoyed some degree of freedom denied most slaves during the A…
African Freedom Suits and Portuguese Vassal Status
This article focuses on the vulnerability of free blacks in Benguela, in West Central Africa, during the first decades of the nineteenth century at the height of slave exports. After the British abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, slavers moved south of the Equator leading to the pressure for more captives and the expansion of violence around Benguela. Focusing on the case of a free black woman, Dona Leonor de Carvalho Fonseca, th…
Concubinage and Slavery in Benguela, C. 1750–1850
From Africa to Jamaica. The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775–1807
Audra A. Diptee. From Africa to Jamaica. The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775–1807. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Pp. i + xiv. 187. Slavery in Jamaica has a long historiog
Aguida Gonçalves da Silva, une dona à Benguela à la fin du xviiie siècle
Cet article examine le rôle des femmes de l'élite commerciale du port de Benguela (Afrique centrale occidentale) au XVIIIe siècle. En se mariant avec des négociants étrangers et avec des administrateurs de la colonie, ces marchandes confortaient leur rôle d'intermédiaires en facilitant le contact entre trafiquants d'esclaves et élites politiques et commerciales de l'intérieur. La trajectoire de vie de dona Aguida Gonçalves da Silva dévoile le rôl…
Benguela and the Atlantic world. Map by Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Princeton’s GIS and Map Librarian
An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World
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 transatlantic slave trade on African societies, Mariana P. Candido explores the formation of new…
O limite tênue entre liberdade e escravidão em Benguela durante a era do comércio transatlântico
O artigo examina processos de captura e escravização na região de Benguela, África centro ocidental. Apesar de a historiografia sobre escravidão e o tráfico de escravos enfatizar a guerra como principal mecanismo de captura, vários casos indicam que um número significativo de indivíduos foram sequestrados por pessoas conhecidas. Além disso, foram capturados em localidades sob o domínio português, próximos à costa, relativizando a ideia de que na …
South Atlantic Exchanges
This article examines the role of Brazilian-born individuals in shaping the social and economic landscape of Benguela, Angola, during the period from 1650 to 1850. It explores how these individuals, often of mixed Portuguese and African descent, navigated the complex dynamics of the South Atlantic trade network, acting as intermediaries between Portuguese colonial authorities, African merchants, and indigenous populations. The study highlights th…
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Vulnerability of Free Blacks in Benguela, Angola, 1780–1830
Through the analysis of Portuguese colonial records, this chapter examines mechanisms of capture around Benguela and the ability of Africans to claim freedom. It focuses on the port of Benguela, a Portuguese colony since 1617, from where at least 679,000 people were exported to the Americas, mainly to Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, in Brazil. The chapter is a contribution to the debate on how people were enslaved, focusing on Benguela and its interior…
Public Memory of Slavery. Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic
Rebecca Shumway. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Much has been written about the rise of new states in West Africa during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Rebecca Shumway's book recovers the history of people in the central coast of the Gold Coast who remained outside of the control of centralized states for most of the eighteenth century. In the process, she provides much information about the port of Anomabo, expanding our knowledge about African ports more generally and historicizin…
Trade Networks in Benguela, 1700–1850
This chapter focuses on trade networks in Benguela, including evolution of the merchant community in Benguela during the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries. It also focuses on Atlantic trade network that connected Benguela and its population to other parts of the world, and also on the internal routes that linked the littoral and the hinterland. The chapter explores the introduction of new consumer practices in central high…
African Women in Ecclesiastical Documents, Benguela, 1760–1860
Based on the analysis of ecclesiastical documents, this study explores how African women lived in the port town of Benguela from about 1760 to 1860. This period includes the height of the transatlantic slave trade, its decline and abolition, and the slow shift towards legitimate trade. Through specific cases revealed in baptism, marriage and burial records, the article presents short stories and explores African women’s interaction with foreign m…
Women, Family, and Landed Property in Nineteenth-Century Benguela
In past decades, new studies have explored the role of gender in the shaping of colonial societies on the African continent. Yet, most of the scholarship has focused on the twentieth century and not much attention has been paid to previous periods. Records from Benguela allow us to see the role of African women in an earlier era, their access to land and labor, and to explore the impact of new forms of production and control. In this study, I exp…
African Women’s Access and Rights to Property in the Portuguese Empire
The study of African women’s access and rights to property in the Portuguese empire allows us to historicize African women’s experience with wealth and poverty. Since the 1960s, studies have brought attention to the reality that poverty in Africa affects women more profoundly than it does men.[1
Engendering West Central African History
This study stresses the role of common women in the history of Benguela in the nineteenth century. I emphasize the importance of parish records to unveil sectors of the society that tend to be invisible in the history of Angola, such as farmers, poor women who acted as vendors in the urban centers, and particularly, enslaved women. While some attention has been paid to merchant women, the so-called donas , and on political leaders, particularly Q…
Cross-cultural exchange in the Atlantic world
Based on research done in Angola, Portugal and Brazil, Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World is a detailed study of the people who crossed the South Atlantic, some of them voluntarily, most
Walter C. Rucker. Gold Coast Diasporas
Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power is an important contribution to the social death, creolization, and ethnogenesis debate in Atlantic history and African diaspora history. Focusing on the Coromantee/Akan of the Gold Coast, Walter C. Rucker examines the historical shifts the group faced during the era of the slave trade. The author proposes that rather than an ethnolinguistic label or a regional identifier, the term “Coromantee” r…
Women in Angola
European colonial powers established the contemporary boundaries of Angola during the Conference of Berlin (1884–1885). However, colonialism dates to the 15th century, when Portuguese merchants first contacted the Kingdom of Kongo along the Congo River and established early settlements in Luanda (1575) and Benguela (1617). Parts of the territories that became known as Angola in the early 20th century have a long history of interaction with the ou…
Cores, classificações e categorias sociais
"O racismo tem uma história" - Entrevista com Silvia Hunold Lara
African Women
Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data
In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement …
Understanding African women’s access to landed property in nineteenth-century Benguela
This study examines the mechanisms that African women employed to accumulate wealth and property during the nineteenth century. After the ban on slave exports in 1836, West Central Africans looked for new economic activities and shifted their focus and energy to the trade in commodities as legitimate commerce expanded in Benguela. In the process, African women achieved new social and economic positions in the colonial setting, accumulating depend…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (27 obras) · Political science (23 obras) · History (22 obras) · Geography (21 obras) · African history and culture studies (18 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (17 obras) · History (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Ethnology (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras)