This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity formation, religious ties and resistance to slaving were central to the formation of the Atlantic world. By adding to our knowledge of the slaving process, the book powerfully illustrates how Atlantic slaving transformed key African institutions, such as local regimes of forced labor that predated and coexisted with Atlantic slaving and made them fundamental features of the Atlantic world's social fabric.

A construção das redes de comércio em Benguela se assentavam tanto em laços comerciais quanto familiares, culturais e religiosos. O artigo usa técnicas de prosopografia para reconstruir trajetórias de negociantes e analisar a micro-escala do comércio de Benguela. O artigo mapeia o início dos embarques diretos de escravos em Benguela no século XVIII e privilegia as relações entre Benguela e Rio de Janeiro, mostrando o alto padrão de mobilidade de negociantes no Atlântico Sul. Palavras-chaves: Benguela -tráfico Atlântico -biografias Biography, Mobility and Atlantic Culture: A Micro-Scale Interpretation of the Slave Trade in Benguela (18 th and 19 th centuries) Trading networks in Benguela were based not only on business ties, but also on family, cultural and religious links. By using prosopographical techniques and reconstructing merchants' trajectories, this article takes a micro-scale approach to commerce in Benguela. It maps out the onset of shipments of slaves from Benguela, and focuses on mobility patterns of merchants across the southern Atlantic and the relations between Benguela and Rio de Janeiro.

Flávio Gomes Roquinaldo Ferreira 141 NOVOS ESTUDOS 80 ❙❙ MARÇO 2008 RESUMONeste artigo abordamos alguns aspectos da natureza da sociedade escravista -na África e no Brasil -especialmente os significados da liberdade, cor, protesto entre os séculos XVII a XIX. Partimos de um diálogo crítico sobre as perspectivas de miscigenação, políticas de domínio e dinâmicas sociais nas sociedades escravistas e os desdobramentos para o seu funcionamento e mudança.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: escravidão; miscigenação; África; sociedade escravista. ABSTRACTThis article aims to focus some aspects concerning slave societies in Brazil and in Africa. In special, those related to the meanings of freedom, color, and protest between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These issues are discussed from a critical dialogue on the perspectives about miscegenation, domination politics, social dynamics, and change in the slave societies.

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The suppression of the slave trade and slave departures from Angola, 1830s-1860sA supressão do tráfi co de escravos em Angola (ca. 1830-ca. 1860