Abolition and the Registration of Slaves and Libertos in Portuguese Mozambique, 1856–76
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8976274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel B Domingues Da Silva (0000-0002-4198-1357, Rice University, corresponding author), Edward A Alpers, Edward Alpers (0000-0003-1137-4625, University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 377-393 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853721000554 |
| OpenAlex | W4206145384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Beginning in 1856 and ending in 1876, Portuguese colonial authorities in Mozambique registered almost 55,000 enslaved and freed Africans ( libertos ). The sources for these twinned registration processes are located in the national archives of Portugal and Mozambique. Fragments of the originals survive for only six of the ten districts of the colony, but contemporary copies exist for nearly all districts. Combined, they provide a unique opportunity to understand both the extent of slavery — as opposed to the export slave trade — and the process of abolition in late-nineteenth-century Mozambique. In this article we first describe the registers themselves, then focus on the registration of enslaved and freed Africans, the resistance of slaveholders, and the kinds of information that we can glean from the registers. We also explore the ways in which freed Africans were employed after registration and the extent to which being a liberto implied ‘freedom’. Finally, we consider how the registration led to new laws and policies in Portuguese Africa, opening a new era of European colonialism and imperial expansion
Colonialism · Economic history · Ethnology · Genealogy · Linguistics · Political science · Portuguese · Resistance (ecology · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |