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| Title: | A história da população de Luanda no período do tráfico atlântico de escravos, 1781-1844 |
| Authors: | Curto, José C. Gervais, Raymond R. |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Africana studia: revista internacional de estudos africanos |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Pages: | 75-130 |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Geographic term: | Angola |
| Subjects: | demographic history demographic change population composition slave trade |
| Abstract: | This article has two, interrelated objectives. First, by drawing upon a relatively large number of censuses relating to Luanda, the colonial capital of Angola, between 1781 and 1844, the article shows that it is possible to reconstruct the pre-1900 population history of certain areas of the African continent. Second, the article shows that in the specific case of Luanda, the premier urban centre along the western coast of Africa for the export of slaves to the Americas, its population decline in the period under consideration cannot be explained solely by factors such as high levels of mortality resulting from drought and disease or slave flight. Rather, during the period 1781-1844, the population history of this slaving port needs to be understood within the broader context of the South Atlantic complex of which it was an integral part, especially the considerable weight of Luanda's major slave market on the opposite side of the ocean, Rio de Janeiro. Notes, ref., sum. in English and Portuguese (p. 253-254), text in Portuguese. (Also published in English in: African Economic History, no. 29 (2001), p. 1-59) [Journal abstract] |
