Strategies of relationship with Ndongo and Mbundu agency. Conquest and trade.

28 Abril 2016, 14:00 José Augusto Nunes da Silva Horta

Portuguese strategies of relationship with Ndongo. The Mbundu attempt at autonomy from Kongo. Portuguese private traders and the Crown initiative to control trade and the politics of Ndongo. The plan of the creation of a donataria. Portuguese military achievements in Ndongo: Afro-Portuguese alliances, Luso-African role and African resistance: the complex picture of slave trade in Angola.


Mandatory readings:
M. Newitt: Doc. 33, pp. 136-142 
 A. Disney, 2: 65-77, 77-83