Slave Flights and Runaway Communities in Angola (17th-19th centuries)

Bibliographic Data

ID5116414
AuthorsRonel Ferreira (0000-0002-2469-6327, John Brown University, corresponding author), Roquinaldo Ferreira
Year2014
Volume21
Issue40
Publication date2014-05-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnos 90 (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0104-236X • E-ISSN: 1983-201X
PublisherUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.22456/1983-201x.45927
OpenAlexW92973896
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited10

This article explores slave resistance in Angola by focusing on slave flights and the formation of runaway communities during the era of the transatlantic slave trade from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It argues that slave flights and runaways communities were integral to societies under Portuguese influence in coastal and internal Angola. It demonstrates that flights occurred due to a wide variety of reasons, including opposition to shipment to Brazil, mistreatments by slave owners, and the influence of African social institutions and customs. Runaways' fate depended on the willingness of African rulers to taken them as fugitives, and many became part of gangs that disrupted the trade between coastal Angola and slave markets in the interior. The article argues that slave flights and runaway communities became more numerous in the nineteenth century, as the transatlantic slave trade declined and commercial agriculture was established in the Luanda hinterland

Ancient history · Atlantic slave trade · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Late 19th century · Middle Passage · Opposition (politics · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Portuguese · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Law