Gendering the Black Atlantic

This chapter traces the evolution of gendered role patterns and women's involvement in the Portuguese Afro-Atlantic trading post of Cacheu from the period of early contact in the sixteenth century to the intensification of commercial exchange and European competition into the late 1700s. The case studies of two women traders from Cacheu examined in the chapter show how they challenged the Portuguese Crown, the Church, and the Inquisition. The chapter takes a closer look at the bonds of relatedness that included complex kinship and clientship relations, which allow for an analysis of the position of women in a strategic port and its surroundings in the Guinea Bissau region. The first case study deals with Inquisition trial held in the 1660s against Crispina Peres. The second case study focuses on the secular trial against Bibiana Vaz and her political role in an uprising by Cacheu's traders in the early 1680s. Keywords:Afro-Atlantic trade; Bibiana Vaz; Cacheu; Crispina Peres; Guinea Bissau region; women traders

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