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Légal Portuguese Slaving from Angola. Some Preliminary Indications of Volume and Direction

1975; Q24023140; Volume: 62; Issue: 226 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/outre.1975.1822

2419-4522

Joseph C. Miller,

Caribbean history, culture, and politics

With overall slave export figures for the " Angola coast " of south western Africa relatively well established in the context of the total Atlantic slave trade, further analysis of the yearly export totals from each Angolan exporting region reveals a direct short-term relationship between economic growth in Brazil and increased numbers of slaves taken from Africa. But this connection tells only a part of the history of the slave trade in the southern Atlantic, since dimly visible commercial, political, and epidemiological conditions within Africa established limits within which African slave suppliers were constrained. The data supporting these arguments are rough and incomplete, extending only to the legal portion of the trade reported in summary customs records from Luanda and Benguela, detailed Brazilian import figures, and port and municipal tax receipts in Angola. Appendices array the available numerical data. Mortality data, analysed as trends rather