HISB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kingdom Of Ndongo, Southeast Region, Brazil, Cowry
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What are the main features of the trade in captives in west central africa: pawning. In west africa, europeans stayed on the coast. 1483: the portuguese arrived in the kingdom of kongo. Kongo was a supplier of captives to the atlantic market and also had a population of captives used internally. Captives were used as credit and diplomatic gifts, as well as labor force and soldiers. Enemies of war: no kongolese people were exported as a result. Freeborn kongos were protected against enslavement and sale overseas. Any opponent of the family in power could be enslaved. 1575: the portuguese established a colony in ndongo (now angola: the portuguese established households there, started families (mixed the race), and living there, building intimate, sexual, and trading relationships. 1822: brazil became an independent country: angola always had a good trading relationship with brazil than with portugal. 1830: anglo-brazilian treaty prohibited slave trading to brazil (was not enforced)