Networks and plots in the world of Atlantic slavery, in West Central Africa, in the eighteenth century
Abstract
The existing studies on the trade and traders from West Central Africa have privileged a socioeconomic approach on the merchants and neglected their role as the main actors for the rise of a specific political-cultural environment in Luanda. The identification of certain life trajectories among members of social groups in this region can bring a new perception on the logic of such slave society in the 1700s. Based on several documentary records I intend to open trails that can take us to the forms of sociability and the identities of the “elite” class from Luanda, not forgetting the change suffered during the course of time to the tensions of internal and external struggles in the region, as exemplified by the confrontation among groups of close relatives.
Key words: West Central Africa, the Atlantic trade, relations of friendship, slave traders.Downloads
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