Mariana P. Candidosup*/supRoutledgeSlavery & AbolitionCANDIDO, Mariana. African Freedom Suits and Portuguese Vassals States. Legal Mechanisms for Fighting Ensalavement in Benguela, Angola, 1800-1830. In: Slavery and Abolition, 32:3, 447-459....
War, slavery, rape, torture, and cannibalism were standard operating procedure among "indigenous peoples." Part of the fight now against truth is to say that all this terminology -- "war, slavery, torture," etc. -- is part of "European-derived concepts" and thus inapplicable to the ...
1500 – Discovery of Brazil Great wealth to Portugal: Sugar Gold mines Precious stones Waves of migrants went to Brazil to work on plantations: Portuguese Italian African slaves End of 19th century / Early 20th century Brazil - 70% of the population were Portuguese emigrants. Causes: The end o...
A counter-subversive war should be a battle for the "hearts and minds" of the African population not a war to kill and annihilate the enemy. He developed, therefore, a concerted approach to the problem of Guinea, a program later called "For a Better Guinea". Although he continued to ...
The Portuguese denied the charge of slavery and claimed that African workers on the islands were not only happier than Portuguese peasants, but also more content than many European workers. This article explores this claim and argues that the conflicting interpretations of what the British called ...
infertility among colonized Africans was more pronounced among the concessionaire companies' work areas, particularly in French Equatorial Africa, Chad, Oubangui-Shari (Central African Republic), Congo, and Gabon, and in such East African territories as Uganda (Retel-Laurentin 1974; Romaniuk 1967)....
slaveryThe Portuguese American Empire included much of South America's eastern coast and its hinterland extending into the Amazon River basin. Although initial 16th-century Portuguese settlement of the territory, also called Brazil, was modest, by the turn of the 17th century a sugar plantation ...
Slavery & AbolitionEagle, Marc."Chasing the Avenca:An Investigation of Illicit Slave Trading in Santo Domingo at the End of the Portuguese Asiento Period". Slavery & Aboli- tion.A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies 35.1 (2014): 99-120....