Slave Trade Networks in Eighteenth-Century Mozambique

Bibliographic Data

ID20042482
AuthorsJose Capela (0000-0003-3447-2834), José Manuel do Couto Ramos Capela (corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages165-193
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueNetworks and Trans-Cultural Exchange (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004280588_007
OpenAlexW911827120
ISBN9789004280588
LanguageEN
Citations received5

In the eighteenth century, the commercial relationships dominating the slave trade in Mozambique's ports were as much the continuation of ancestral relationships as of those created throughout the century itself. Once the Portuguese were established in India, ships from Portugal bound for India loaded slaves on southeast African coast. Efforts to promote French slave supplies from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic were hindered first by continuing success in slaving in Atlantic Ocean and by the disruptions to French colonial trade in the Americas caused by war with Britain in 1755-1763. In the eighteenth century, slave ships departing from ports of Mozambique headed systematically towards main directions other than India. The first was to French colonies in the Indian Ocean and in the West Indies. The second was to Brazil. Keywords: Atlantic Ocean; French colonies; Mozambique ports; Portuguese; slave trade networks

Economics · Geography · International trade · Political science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History

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