Colonial Aspirations

Current scholarship that has revisited Portuguese colonial relationships with the Atlantic islands and mainland African countries of Guinea Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, not to mention Brazil, is finding new ways of articulating the history of ideas with national history and microhistory, unveiling complex and multifaceted demographic, political, social, religious, and cultural strands (Pétré-Grenouilleau 2004: 16). In some instances, new findings are enriching earlier debates on unity and disunity in the long tradition of empire.1 In others, traditional emphases on the unidirectional navigational flows of the transatlantic slave trade have been revised in the light of cultural, linguistic, and religious concerns. Revisionists highlight the multidirectional migratory patterns of returning Africans from the Americas and the Atlantic islands, and the migrations of Portuguese, Brazilians, and Africans to and from Brazil, the Atlantic islands, and Portugal during and after the Portuguese colonial experience abroad (Mann and Bay 2001; Turner 1975; Guran 2000; Carneiro da Cunha 1985; Ferreira in this volume). In some cases, the concept of the Black Atlantic has been extended to embrace Mozambique and beyond, in line with the dynamics and the interconnections of the transatlantic slave trade and other commercial trajectories in the South Atlantic (Alencastro 2000; Curto and Soulodre 2001: 243–258; Capela 2005). Although recent research engages the diaspora in terms of the cultural dynamics of the Portuguese Black Atlantic, unresolved issues include what Tiffany Patterson and Robin Kelley identify as the linkages that tie the process of the diaspora together and that also contribute to its unmaking (2000: 11–45)

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• Slavery

  Thomas Thurston•Slavery and Abolition•2007

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• Way of Death

  Joseph C Miller•Way of Death•1997

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• Rhythms of Resistance

  Peter Fryer, P J Fryer•Rhythms of Resistance•2000

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• Unity and disunity, creolization and marronage in the atlantic world

  Verene A Shepherd•Atlantic Studies•2004

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• From Slave Trade to Empire

  Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau•From Slave Trade to Empire•2004

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• Enslaving Spirits

  J C Curto•Enslaving Spirits•2004

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• Tropical Versailles

  Kenneth Maxwell, Kirsten Schultz•Foreign Affairs•2001

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• Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola 1840-1926

  Douglas L Wheeler, W G Clarence-Smith et al.•African Economic History•1981

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• Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850

  Mary C Karasch•Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro,…•2019

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• The Third Portuguese Empire 1825-1975

  Jeanne Penvenne, Jeanne Marie Penvenne et al.•The International Journal of…•1986

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• Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850

  Peter Eisenberg, Peter L Eisenberg et al.•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•1988

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• Negros, estrangeiros

  Anani Dzidzienyo, Manuela Carneiro Da Cunha•Hispanic American Historical Review•1988

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• Unfinished Migrations

  Tiffany Ruby Patterson, R D G Kelley•African Studies Review•2000

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