Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa
Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa

Author: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 9004201513

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By looking at Dutch and Portuguese systems of settlement and trade in Western Africa, this book sheds new light on the formation of Dutch and Portuguese imperial frames, forms of commercial organisation and their role on the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.

Chocolate on Trial
Chocolate on Trial

Author: Lowell Joseph Satre

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0821416251

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In 1901, Cadbury learned that its cocoa beans purchased from Portuguese-owned plantations on the island of Sao Tome off West Africa were produced by slave labor.

The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670
The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670

Author: Malyn Newitt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139491296

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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.

Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down
Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down

Author: Pepijn Brandon

Publisher: Studies in Global Social Histo

Published: 2020-10

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9789004428027

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"Revolutions are relatively new, rare and extraordinary events in history, which is perhaps one reason why historians and social scientists alike continue to be surprised and fascinated by them. Although this interest goes back to at least the early modern revolutions in England (1640-1660) and the Netherlands (1568-1648)"--