The trade of Loango in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

This chapter describes in detail both the pre-European and the early trade of the Loango coast with Europeans in commodities such as copper, palm-cloth, skins, redwood, ivory and elephants’ tails. The Vili people on the Loango coast obtained these products from the interior of West Central Africa and organized their sale both to African consumers and to the Europeans on the coast. By 1670, the Dutch West India Company was exporting 3,000 slaves annually from Loango. The Vili of Loango began their first regular trade with the Portuguese in the 1570s. An important extension of Loango’s external trading contacts came with the arrival of the Dutch in the area in the closing years of the sixteenth century. By the 1660s the mining, smelting, and transporting of the copper on sale at Loango was a highly organized operation and in Vili hands

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