The Suppression of the Slave Trade and Slave Departures from Angola, 1830s–1860s

Ferreira, Roquinaldo

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“…At the beginning of the 19th century there were three principal slaving regions in West Central Africa: northern Angola, Luanda and Benguela (23,24). After 1807, international efforts to suppress the slave trade had a major impact on the operation of the trade in Luanda and Benguela, which had dominated the supply and shipment of slaves hitherto (24). This resulted in a shift and relocation of the trade to northern Angola, particularly the region between southern Gabon and Ambriz, passing by and making use of the Congo river to protect slavers from the British Navy and stretch the trade from the river banks all the way to the interior, expanding up to today's Kinshasa (25).…”

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The genetic origins of Saint Helena’s liberated Africans

Sandoval-Velasco

Jagadeesan

Ávila‐Arcos

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Between the early 16 th and late 19 th centuries, an estimated 12 million Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade. Following Britain's abolition of slave trade in 1807, the Royal Navy patrolled the Atlantic and intercepted slave ships that continued to operate. During this period, the island of St Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic served as a depot for "liberated" Africans. Between 1840 and 1867, approximately 27,000 Africans were disembarked on the island. To investigate their origins, we generated genome-wide ancient DNA data for 20 individuals recovered from St Helena. The genetic data indicate that they came from West Central Africa, possibly the area of present-day Gabon and Angola. The data further suggest that they did not belong to a single population, confirming historical reports of cultural heterogeneity among the island's African community. Our results shed new light on the origins of enslaved Africans during the final stages of the slave trade and illustrate how genetic data can be used to complement and validate existing historical sources.

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The genetic origins of Saint Helena’s liberated Africans

Sandoval-Velasco

Jagadeesan

Ávila‐Arcos

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“…Essa evolução constituiu a base para a continuidade do tráfico de escravos em Ambriz e em outras regiões próximas ao Rio Congo até a década de 1850, apesar dos embarques de escravos em Luanda terem findado em meados da década de 1840. 31 Em Benguela, os embarques de escravos diminuíram ainda mais após 1831. Enquanto 25.097 cativos foram enviados a partir dessa cidade entre 1826 e 1830, o seu número diminuiu para 2.684 entre 1831 e 1835.…”

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Biografia como história social: o clã Ferreira Gomes e os mundos da escravização no Atlântico Sul

Ferreira

2013

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Este artigo analisa as conexões econômicas e sociais engendradas pelo tráfico de escravos entre Angola e Brasil, assim como o abolicionismo português na primeira metade do século XIX. Neste sentido, o artigo usa como ponto de partida a trajetória pessoal de José Ferreira Gomes, um homem negro, nascido em Benguela, cuja mãe, Florinda José Gaspar, era filha de um chefe africano da Catumbela e cujo pai, Francisco Ferreira Gomes, foi um homem negro nascido no Brasil que tinha sido um dos traficantes de escravos mais ativos em Benguela. Tendo como base a biografia de Gomes Júnior, o artigo discute os laços sociais e culturais que os traficantes de escravos angolanos mantinham com o Brasil e com as populações africanas, a transição do tráfico de escravos para o comércio lícito, e as mudanças na políticas portuguesas em relação ao tráfico de escravos na década de 1840. Para entender o recrudescimento do colonialismo em Angola, o artigo examina acusações de que membros da família Ferreira Gomes teriam participado de sedições raciais e anti-coloniais contra os portugueses.

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“…For a discussion of the term, see (Law 1995). 4 On the illegal slave trade from Angola, see (Ferreira 1999(Ferreira , 2008Karasch 1967;da Silva 2013da Silva , 2017Oliveira 2021). 5 Boletim Oficial de Angola (BOA), n. 85, 24 April, 1847, pp.…”

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Experiences of Enslaved Children in Luanda, 1850–1869

S. Oliveira

2024

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About half of Luanda’s population comprised enslaved people in the mid-nineteenth century. Although scholars have examined the expansion of slavery in Angola after the end of the transatlantic slave trade and the use of slavery to underpin the trade in tropical commodities, the labor performed by enslaved children has been neglected. This study explores the experiences of enslaved children working in Luanda during the era of the so-called “legitimate” commerce in tropical commodities, particularly between 1850 and 1869. It draws upon slave registers, official reports, and the local gazette, the Boletim Oficial de Angola, to analyze the means through which children were enslaved, the tasks they performed, their background, family connections, and daily experiences under enslavement. This paper argues that masters expected enslaved children to perform the same work attributed to enslaved men and women. After all, they saw captives as a productive unit irrespective of their age.

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The Suppression of the Slave Trade and Slave Departures from Angola, 1830s–1860s

Abstract: 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

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The genetic origins of Saint Helena’s liberated Africans

The genetic origins of Saint Helena’s liberated Africans

Biografia como história social: o clã Ferreira Gomes e os mundos da escravização no Atlântico Sul

Experiences of Enslaved Children in Luanda, 1850–1869

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