Historical Dynamics of a Central African Port: Ambriz and the Lower Congo at the End of the Atlantic Slave Trade, between the 1840s and 1870s

Authors

  • Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2015.89698

Keywords:

Central West Africa, Nineteenth Century, Joachim John Monteiro, Ambriz, mines of Bembe

Abstract

The aim of this article is to trace the history of Ambriz between the 1840s and 1870s in order to illuminate the issues of political and economic order that mediated relations with the colonial power based in Luanda, as well as reveal the characteristics of trade made by African societies, especially those articulated by the port and the Lower Congo. Beyond a purely economic approach, we seek to understand the business activities in a dialogic relationship in which African sectors impose rules and standards, and these in turn reveal conceptions and forms of association whose logic extrapolates an essentially Eurocentric perspective.

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2015-06-30

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WISSENBACH, Maria Cristina Cortez. Historical Dynamics of a Central African Port: Ambriz and the Lower Congo at the End of the Atlantic Slave Trade, between the 1840s and 1870s. Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 172, p. 163–195, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2015.89698. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/89698.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.