1648-1815 History of Central Africa 1880-1918




History of Angola, 1815-1880



Both the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars eliminated the Dutch, French and British competition as suppliers of slaves to the Caribbean; Angola's slave trade went through boom years. The ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT, on the other hand, had an even more serious impact.
With Britain outlawing slave trade in 1807, Portugal's continued practice of Trans-Atlantic slave trade tranished the country's image in the British press; the country's traditional alliance with Britain was strained. Britain outlawed slavery altogether in 1834, Brazil outlawed slave trade as late as 1850, slavery in 1888.
Portugal itself had outlawed slave trade in 1836, the colony of Angola had abolished slavery in 1858. Slave trade to Brazil continued, however, as an illegal business, until into the 1880es.
Hitherto, Angola's primary economic function had been to supply Brazil with a steady supply of slaves. In the 19th century, Portuguese politicians began to rethink. After having lost Brazil in 1822, Portugal shifted the focus of it's colonial policy to Africa. Angola now was regarded an area for white settlement; the search for mineral deposits and profitable plantation products increased.
In 1840, the city of MOCAMEDES was founded, extending the territory under Portuguese control further south. In the 1870es an attempt was made to cross the African continent from Angola to Mocambique and claim the territory of the interior.



EXTERNAL
FILES 		Library of Congress, Country Studies : Angola
History : from the origins to independence, from Netangola
History of Luanda, from Angola.org; History of Benguela, from Angola.org
Angola and Congo, from Catholic Encyclopedia; Portuguese West Africa, from Catholic Encyclopedia
DOCUMENTS Map of 1881 from Richard Andree's Allgemeiner Handatlas, 1881, shows Portuguese Angola as a colony well-established, reaching far into Africa's interior
REFERENCE Shubi L. Ishemo, Forced Labour and Migration in Portuguese African Colonies, pp.162-165 in : Robin Cohen, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, Cambridge : UP 1995, KMLA Lib.Sign. 304.809 C678c



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First posted in 2001, last revised on May 23rd 2006

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