Networks and trans-cultural exchange : : slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 / / edited by David Richardson and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva.

• Superior document: Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, Volume 30
• TeilnehmendeR: Richardson, David, 1946-; Silva, Filipa Ribeiro da, 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Winner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Studies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portuguese-Brazilian traders and other agents and their local African and mulatto trading partners. While reaffirming the centrality of slaving activities and of the networks that underpinned them, this collection of new essays shows that there were major Portuguese-Brazilian slave-trading activities in the South Atlantic outside Luanda as well as the Angolan-Brazil axes upon which historians usually focus. In drawing attention to these aspects of the South Atlantic commercial world, we are reminded that this was a world of change and also one in which Portuguese-Brazilian traders were unable to sustain in the face of competition from northern European rivals the dominant position in slave trading in Atlantic Africa that they had first established in the sixteenth century.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / David Richardson and Ribeiro da Silva -- Introduction: The South Atlantic Slave Trade in Historical Perspective / David Richardson and Ribeiro da Silva -- Brazil’s Colonial Economy and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Supply and Demand / Gustavo Acioli Lopes -- Private Businessmen in the Angolan Trade, 1590's to 1780's: Insurance, Commerce and Agency / Filipa Ribeiro da Silva -- Angola and the Seventeenth-Century South Atlantic Slave Trade / Arlindo Manuel Caldeira -- Trade Networks in Benguela, 1700–1850 / Mariana P. Candido -- Slave Trade Networks in Eighteenth-Century Mozambique / José Capela -- Trans-Cultural Exchange at Malemba Bay: The Voyages of Fregatschip Prins Willem V, 1755 to 1771 / Stacey Sommerdyk -- Measuring Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Abolitionism in the South Atlantic, 1807–1860's / Roquinaldo Ferreira -- Bibliography / David Richardson and Ribeiro da Silva -- Index / David Richardson and Ribeiro da Silva.