Angola and the Seventeenth-Century South Atlantic Slave Trade

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ID20044463
AuthorsArlindo Manuel Caldeira (0000-0001-7311-5907, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages101-142
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueNetworks and Trans-Cultural Exchange (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004280588_005
OpenAlexW890654693
ISBN9789004280588
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This chapter offers a general overview of the slave trade in seventeenth-century Angola and its connections to the wider Atlantic Ocean. It begins by looking at acquisition of slaves in the interior and their transport to the coast and provides analysis of accommodation of slaves at the coast and their embarkation on board ship. The chapter examines some technical, commercial and financial issues relating to Angolan slave trade, and looks at terrible conditions under which slaves were transported across the Atlantic. In principle, the dispatch of slave ships in Luanda should have followed their order of arrival at the port. Some merchants investing directly or through middlemen in the transatlantic slave trade freighted ships from other parties. Seeking to circumvent the restrictions on loading rates of slaves imposed by the 1684 legislation, ship owners and masters resorted to several stratagems. Keywords: Angolan slave trade; legislation; slave ships; South Atlantic slave trade

Ancient history · Atlantic slave trade · Atlantic World · Geography · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History

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