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Blacksmiths of Ilamba
This study analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior 18th-century of Angola. It was a fruit of the Portuguese Enlightenment, which encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly of iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the plans faced the resistance of African blacksmiths and founders who refused to learn foreign techniques and work processes. By emphasizing Central African agency, the book highlights the successful strategies of historical actors who scholars have largely ignored. Based upon a wide variety of sources from Brazilian, Portuguese, and Angolan archives, the book reconstructs how Africans were taken to work at the...
Assembling the Tropics
This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola
Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884–5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labour. By centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history.
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans, over four times as many as any other American destination. Comparatively speaking, Brazil received 40% of the total number of Africans brought to the Americas, while the US received approximately 10%. Due to this huge influx of Africans, today Brazil’s African-descended population is larger than the population of most African countries. Therefore, it is no surprise that Slavery Studies are one of the most consolidated fields in Brazilian historiography. In the last decades, a number of discussions have flourished on issues such as slave agency,...
Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds
The Iberian world played a key role in the global trade of enslaved people from the 15th century onwards. Scholars of Iberian forms of slavery face challenges accessing the subjectivity of the enslaved, given the scarcity of autobiographical sources. This book offers a compelling example of innovative methodologies that draw on alternative archives and documents, such as inquisitorial and trial records, to examine enslaved individuals' and collective subjectivities under Iberian political dominion. It explores themes such as race, gender, labour, social mobility and emancipation, religion, and politics, shedding light on the lived experiences of those enslaved in the Iberian world from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Contributors are: Magdalena Candioti, Robson Pedroso Costa, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, James Fujitani, Michel Kabalan, Silvia Lara, Marta Macedo, Hebe Mattos, Michelle McKinley, Sophia Blea Nuñez, Fernanda Pinheiro, João José Reis, Patricia Faria de Souza, Lisa Surwillo, Miguel Valerio and Lisa Voigt.
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
A groundbreaking story of African agency and the abolition of slavery, providing a new perspective on the Atlantic slave trade.
The Gift
The Gift tells the story of one silver ceremonial sword offered as a gift by French traders to an African agent, and reveals how prestigious gifts shaped the trade of enslaved Africans. This compelling account will interest historians of slavery and material culture.
Pegadas no rio, sombras no tempo
Resultado dos trabalhos do grupo de pesquisa Áfricas: Sociedade, Política e Cultura (Uerj-CNPq), este livro nos convida a conhecer biografias, histórias de vida e trajetórias de personagens pouco abordadas na historiografia africana, contribuindo para problematizar não só as grandes narrativas ocidentais como o próprio exercício de construção histórica. Nesse sentido, nos lembra que também o ato de narrar a África por africanos sempre está atravessado por disputas de poder e entrelaçado em contextos políticos, sociais e culturais específicos, que não podem ser desconsiderados. Os textos aqui reunidos abarcam um vasto período (da antiga civilização cuxita, no Sudão do s...
África, margens e oceanos
Desde meados dos anos 2000, a produção africanista brasileira vem destacando-se no cenário internacional por suas contribuições originais. Este livro apresenta alguns desses aportes, tais como a ênfase na história social e o protagonismo de atores africanos. Ao mesmo tempo, destaca as referências intelectuais e os contornos sociais que demarcam a produção sobre história da África no Brasil, evidenciando a relevância dos estudos sobre o tráfico, o interesse pelas experiências dos escravizados e as demandas dos movimentos negros na sua constituição. Coloca em relevo também os diálogos estabelecidos com a historiografia africanista estrangeira, seja ela produzida em centros de pesquisa norte-americanos, europeus ou africanos. Além disso, explora os limites e alarga os horizontes das pesquisas realizadas no Brasil, chamando atenção para temas e cenários ainda pouco explorados, notadamente as conexões do Índico com a África, as Américas e a Ásia. Por fim, mas não menos importante, aborda questões relativas ao ensino de história da África, enfatizando sua relação com os estudos acadêmicos e com as políticas públicas de combate ao racismo no Brasil.
África e Religiões Afro-Brasileiras
Este livro traz importantes contribuições a respeito da influência africana na história das religiões brasileiras, a partir de dois momentos distintos: a constituição da religiosidade africana nos séculos XVII e XVIII, calundus, quimbandas, xinguilas e outros rituais afro-diaspóricos; e num segundo momento a constituição das religiões afro-brasileiras modernas nos séculos XIX e XX: candomblés, macumbas, umbandas etc.
