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A conquista do Ambriz: a expansão colonial e competição imperial na África Central

2015; Issue: 5 (9) Linguagem: Inglês

10.4000/mulemba.439

2520-0305

Roquinaldo Ferreira,

History of Colonial Brazil

This article deals with the conquest of Ambriz in the 1850s. It places it in the broader conquest of the end of the transatlantic slave trade in Angola and Ambriz, as well as imperial in the context of fierce disputes that pitted the Portuguese against the British in the region. The article argues that Portuguese colonial expansion towards Ambriz was part of broader plans to strengthen colonial ties to Angola that began with the end of the transatlantic slave trade. To understand the conquest of Ambriz, the article reconstructs the relationship between the Brazilian investor Francisco Antonio Flores and the British diplomat George Jackson.