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Central Africa - Development of the slave trade | Britannica - 3 views

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Mzamo Mbewana History 2A Slavery

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  • The Atlantic opening had an earlier and more direct impact on Central Africa than the Mediterranean opening. In the 1470s a colony of Portuguese was settled on the offshore island of São Tomé. The Portuguese had been experimenting with colonial plantations for more than a century and already had settlements on Cape Verde and the Canary and Madeira islands
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      mzamombewana on 04 Apr 23
       
      This paragraph indicate the arrival of Portuguese and establishment of slave in Central Africa.
  • Central African slaves taken to the island slave market were sold to three destinations. The strongest were sold to the Akan miners of the Gold Coast in West Africa, where royal Portuguese agents were able to buy up to half a ton of gold a year in exchange for imported commodities and slave workers from other parts of the continent.
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      mzamombewana on 04 Apr 23
       
      This paragraph or annotated text indicate the locations and trade routes of slaves from Central Africa to Portuguese markets.
  • The second attempt to build a European colony in Central Africa occurred in the kingdom of Kongo surrounding the mouth of the Congo River. Portuguese traders exploited a division in the ruling class to gain a foothold at the court and the support of a royal claimant, who adopted Christianity and assumed the title of Afonso I
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      mzamombewana on 04 Apr 23
       
      This section indicates the Portuguese effort to capture Congo a region in Central Africa and colonize it for the trading slaves purposes.
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    The blog/newspaper indicates the arrival of Portuguese in Central Africa with their trading purpose. It then highlights how Portuguese conquered and traded African slaves in some regions of Free State Congo (Modern: DRC).
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December 1877 - Document - Nineteenth Century Collections Online - 8 views

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Mzamo Mbewana History 2A Slavery

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    This primary source outlines the confidential information of the slaves who were murdered by the Portuegese lords in central Africa.
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    This primary source highlights the number and occurrence of daily murdering of slaves by the Portuegese and others in central Africa, Eliver Congo during the period.
  • ujhistprof on 20 Mar 23
     
    Well tagged. Have you figured out how to annotate yet? Remember you need to annotate. Best, Natasha
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/219222.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A1d7b7db20a0ebb4bc343ab... - 2 views

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Mzamo Mbewana History 2A Slavery

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      mzamombewana on 24 Apr 23
       
      This Journal analyses the actions of the Sourthen slavery, only few sources analyses the slavery in the Southern Africa.
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      mzamombewana on 24 Apr 23
       
      (Page 4/ First 4 lines) Indicate the period and the involvement of Europeans in the Madacascar in search for slaves during the mid-60s.
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      mzamombewana on 24 Apr 23
       
      Last Paragraph of P.4 explains the slavery ownership conflicts of European Nations ,France, British and Portuguese over the lands and population of Madagacsar and Mozambique. In the last few lines the author indicates the Arab suppliers of slaves to France from the region of Madagascar.
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      mzamombewana on 24 Apr 23
       
      Antalaotra means overseas people, it is a term linked with the History and language of Madagascar.
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      mzamombewana on 24 Apr 23
       
      In the last paragraph of Page 5 the Author indicates the slaves ports established by the Antalaotra in the area and the trade routes of slaves to the North or to the New World.
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Great Britain and Portugal in East Africa - 7 views

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Mzamo Mbewana History 2A Slavery

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  • A veryhigh price was obtained for slaves in Brazil when the gold mines wereopened; every one sold slaves, and Government got an export duty of §18or about £4 sterling per head. If the parting with the population ofthe Zambesi valley reduced the province to a skeleton, and caused greatexpense from deficiency of revenue, it indicates that you cannot sell thepopulation and retain effective possession of the country.
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      mzamombewana on 16 Apr 23
       
      This annotation indicates the value slaves captured in Zambezi East Africa by the Portuguese were exchanged with Brazilian mines of gold. It also indicates the effect Portuguese caused on the regions populations by capturing and selling slaves.
  • In this interval the status of slavery was renderedillegal in Portuguese possessions, but nevertheless, the facilities accordedto Serpa Pinto were in connection with the slave-trade, which had toa certain extent been diverted from Kilwa and Lindi to Ibo pre-vious to 1885.
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      mzamombewana on 16 Apr 23
       
      Annotations indicates the illegal possession of slave capturing and routing by the Portuguese in the region of East Africa.
  • As part of the plan at present being worked out is said to be thatJesuit missionaries are to take up their position near the Protestant mis-sions in Nyassaland, it seems as though the Jesuits, who have been moreprominent in Portugal since the misunderstanding with this country,were taking the opportunity of pushing their own plans by gettingcountenance given to the slave-dealers who have attacked our country-men.
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      mzamombewana on 16 Apr 23
       
      Annotations indicates how Superior tension between European states British and Portugal intensified the slave capturing and transporting in East Africa.
  • mzamombewana on 16 Apr 23
     
    This Article from Taylor and Francis explains the Portuguese connections and establishments of slavery capturing in Central African province Nyassaland. It further elaborates the conflict of British and Portuguese over the area.
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