Captive Converts: Slavery and Mobility in the Portuguese Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Western Indian OceanIn this paper, I analyze a Portuguese Inquisition case to explore mobility and transitions between captivity, slavery, and freedom. My central questions are asHassell, Stephanie...
The Dutch for a time captured Brazil from the Portuguese and while there helped develop the the plantion sugar industry. While they were a major participanht in the slave trade, the lack of large colonies in the Americas meant that the slave population was relatively limited. There largest ...
The British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese all engaged in the African slave trade. Although Africans were, as early as 1440, brought back to Portugal, and although subsequent importations were large enough to change distinctly the ethnography of that country, it was not in Europe that...
J. R. The Portuguese Empire, 1415–1808. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Important contribution to the history and development of Portugal’s American empire. The author emphasizes people and transportation as agents of cultural exchanges, including African slaves. The Portuguese ...
SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF EXPLORATION15th and 16th Centuries: The Portuguese and Spanish were pioneers in the Age of Exploration, establishing early trade routes to Africa and the Americas. They enslaved indigenous peoples in the New World and imported enslaved Africans to replace labor lost to ...
Slavery in the Early Colonial Period More fluid, less oppressive “Degrees of unfreedom” African slaves already part of the Atlantic world Labor shortage in the colonies Young societies African Slaves Already Part of Atlantic World Came from Caribbean sugar plantations, or were pirates or military ...
The colonial authorities of most nationalities, French, Portuguese, German, as well as British, left behind the rule of law, plus roads, hospitals, schools, railways, drains, and most of the advantages of western civilization. Since these countries gained independence, many have ignored ‘due pro...
It was a defining moment in the history of slavery, and it had a major impact on the abolition of the slave trade around the world. The transatlantic slave trade began in the 15th century with the Portuguese as the first slave traders in the triangular slave trade. The triangular trade ...
but history’s always being rewritten, otherwise we could have one book on every topic and call it enough. So let’s look at one of the less acknowledged things the British Empire did after it abolished slavery. (That was in 1834, since you asked). Because the story of slavery doesn’...
Domingues da Silva, Daniel.The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Ch. 6 "Experiences and Methods of Enslavement". Supplementary reading: Paiva, José Pedro. “The New Christian Divide in the Portuguese-Speaking World (Sixteenth ...