The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 write by Malyn Newitt. This book was released on 2010-06-28. The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples of North and West Africa in the period from 1400 to 1650. This period witnessed the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, the emigration of Portuguese to West Africa and the islands, and the beginnings of the black diaspora associated with the slave trade. The documents show how the Portuguese tried to understand the societies with which they came into contact and to reconcile their experience with the myths and legends inherited from classical and medieval learning. They also show how Africans reacted to the coming of Europeans, adapting Christian ideas to local beliefs and making use of exotic imports and European technologies. The documents also describe the evolution of the black Portuguese communities in Guinea and the islands, as well as the slave trade and the way that it was organized, understood, and justified.
The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670
The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 write by M. D. D. Newitt. This book was released on 2010. The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples of North and West Africa in the period from 1400 to 1650. This period witnessed the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, the emigration of Portuguese to West Africa and the islands, and the beginnings of the black diaspora associated with the slave trade. The documents show how the Portuguese tried to understand the societies with which they came into contact and to reconcile their experience with the myths and legends inherited from classical and medieval learning. They also show how Africans reacted to the coming of Europeans, adapting Christian ideas to local beliefs and making use of exotic imports and European technologies. The documents also describe the evolution of the black Portuguese communities in Guinea and the islands, as well as the slave trade and the way that it was organized, understood, and justified"--
A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555
A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 write by A. Saunders. This book was released on 1982-02-11. A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Ouidah
Ouidah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ouidah write by Robin Law. This book was released on 2004. Ouidah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ouidah, an indigenous African town in the modern Republic of Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region, and the second most important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the export of slaves for the trans- Atlantic trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the 'Slave Coast'. Exporting over a million slaves, it was second only to Luanda in Angola for the embarkation of slaves in the whole of Africa. The author's central concerns are the organization of the African end of the slave trade, and the impact participation in the trade had on the historical development of the African societies involved. It shifts the focus from the viewpoint of the Dahomian monarchy, represented in previous studies, to the coast. Here is a well documented case study of pre-colonial urbanism, of the evolution of a merchant community, and in particular the growth of a group of private traders whose relations with the Dahomian monarchy grew increasingly problematic over time. North America: Ohio U Press
The Forgotten Diaspora
The Forgotten Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten Diaspora write by Peter Mark. This book was released on 2013-07-31. The Forgotten Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This blade weapons trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. After members of these communities moved to the United Provinces around 1620, they had a profound influence on relations between black and white Jews in Amsterdam. The study not only discovers previously unknown Jewish communities but by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.
