The Northeastern Factor in South African History

Reevaluating the Volume of the Slave Trade Out of Delagoa Bay and Its Impact on Its Hinterland in the Early Nineteenth Century

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8977128
AutoresLinell Chewins (0000-0002-1693-5084, University of the Witwatersrand, autor correspondente), Peter Delius (University of the Witwatersrand)
Ano2020
Volume61
Fascículo1
Páginas89-110
Data de publicação2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853720000055
OpenAlexW3014896373
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas51

This article, largely on the basis of in-depth research in archives in Lisbon, provides an account of the trading systems linking Delagoa Bay to its southern hinterland. Within this framework we argue that the role of the slave trade has been previously underestimated. There is evidence that the booming demand for slaves in Brazil and on the Mascarene Islands hit this region with force. The scale of that trade is difficult to establish because it was, by and large, illicit and so not systematically recorded. There are indications of a significant trade prior to 1823 and a substantial one after that date. There is also evidence that northern Nguni groups, including the Zulu kingdom, were deeply involved in this trading system. The main sources of captives, however, were militarily weak societies, like the Tembe, which lived closer to the Bay

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bay · Cartography · Economic history · Ethnology · Fur trade · Geography · Scale (ratio · Zulu · African history and culture studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · South African History and Culture