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      Um Portuense em África: Notes for a Biography of a Luso-African Archive

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          Abstract This article draws on my ongoing research into the life and archive of A.F.F. da Silva Porto (1817-1890), a trader-traveler who lived in nineteenth-century West Central Africa. Comprising a series of volumes of notes and various other manuscripts, the archive is currently in two Portuguese institutions. By historicizing this archive, I unravel Silva Porto’s messy writing process and argue that the volumes known as his diaries correspond to distinct literary projects. I then problematize the classification practices related to the traders in Viye and argue that, as a Luso-African archive, it is a privileged observatory of the dynamics of migration and creolization associated with trade in the region.

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          Resumo Este artigo baseia-se na minha investigação em curso sobre a vida e o arquivo de A. F. F. da Silva Porto (1817-1890), um comerciante-viajante que viveu na África Central Ocidental oitocentista. Composto por uma série de volumes de notas e vários outros manuscritos, o arquivo encontra-se hoje em duas instituições portuguesas. Ao historicizá-lo, deslindo o processo confuso de escrita de Silva Porto e sugiro que os volumes conhecidos como os seus diários correspondam de facto a projetos literários distintos. Problematizo então as práticas de classificação relativas aos comerciantes no Viye e argumento que, enquanto arquivo luso-africano, é um observatório privilegiado das dinâmicas de migração e crioulização associadas ao comércio na região.

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            Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830

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              An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World : Benguela and its Hinterland

              This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Benguela, located on the central coast of present-day Angola, was founded by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. In discussing the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on African societies, Mariana P. Candido explores the formation of new elites, the collapse of old states and the emergence of new states. Placing Benguela in an Atlantic perspective, this study shows how events in the Caribbean and Brazil affected social and political changes on the African coast. This book emphasizes the importance of the South Atlantic as a space for the circulation of people, ideas and crops.
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                ejph
                e-Journal of Portuguese History
                e-JPH
                Universidade do Porto; Brown University (Porto, , Portugal )
                1645-6432
                December 2022
                : 20
                : 2
                : 47-67
                Affiliations
                [1] orgnameUtrecht University orgdiv1Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Netherlands
                [2] orgnameUniversity of the Free State orgdiv1International Studies Group South Africa ana.r.amaral@ 123456gmail.com
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                S1645-64322022000200047 S1645-6432(22)02000200047
                10.26300/7d6c-jg02
                e3c8cd0d-fb02-4ec4-a48a-dc6d62779455

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 15 June 2022
                : 15 October 2022
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                Special Issue: Migrations and Diasporas in Portuguese Speaking Africa(s)

                trade,Viye,Luso-Africans,archive,Angola,Silva Porto,comércio,Luso-Africanos,arquivo

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