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      Uma Vila Esclavagista: Proprietários e seus Cativos em Moçâmedes, 1855 Translated title: A Slaveholding Town: Slaveowners and their Captives in Moçâmedes, 1855

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          RESUMO Este artigo investiga proprietários de escravizados e seus bens humanos numa vila portuária fundada no sul de Angola, Moçâmedes, em meados do século XIX. Baseia-se num registro de 1855, de proprietários de escravizados e seus cativos, para compreender melhor os habitantes desta paisagem urbana costeira fundada quinze anos antes. Ao contrário da cidade imposta ao deserto por “homens” de pele clara, pintada por observadores coloniais e pós-colonialistas, esta era uma nova sociedade de fronteira construída com trabalho escravizado. Porcentagem significativa dessa terra ficou nas mãos de um grande número de proprietários individuais, enquanto a maioria foi mantida por um punhado de habitantes livres. Porém, independentemente dos seus proprietários, os indivíduos escravizados empenhavam-se numa multiplicidade de ocupações em Moçâmedes - trabalhos na agricultura, colheita de urzella, realização de ofícios de rua, pesca nos mares próximos -, o que transformou Moçâmedes numa “vila escravista”.

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          ABSTRACT This article investigates slave owners and their human assets in a port town founded in southern Angola, Moçâmedes, in the mid-nineteenth century. It draws on an 1855 register of slave owners and their captives to better understand the inhabitants of this coastal urban landscape founded fifteen years earlier. Unlike the city imposed on the desert by light-skinned “men” painted by colonial and post-colonial observers, this was a new frontier society built with slave labor. A significant percentage of this land remained in the hands of a large number of individual owners, while the majority was held by a handful of free inhabitants. However, regardless of their owners, enslaved individuals engaged in a multitude of occupations in Moçâmedes - working in agriculture, harvesting orchella weed, performing street trades, fishing in the nearby seas -, which made Moçâmedes a “slave town”.

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            In Angola, climatic instability contributed to maintaining a precarious balance between food resources, population and disease long before the nineteenth century. Periods of exceptionally irregular rainfall, lasting several years, were preceded or accompanied by plagues of locusts which caused famines at least once every decade. The coastal lowland and the extreme south were especially vulnerable. Prolonged hunger crises led to malnutrition, lowered resistance to disease and epidemic outbreaks, especially of smallpox. A rhythm of drought and smallpox can be discerned in Angola, at least since the seventeeth century. From the 1830s the gradual decline of the overseas slave trade and rise of commerce in raw materials and cash crops brought important demographic changes. These contributed to the worsening famines and epidemic crises of the late nineteenth century. Commercial instability and rural depopulation hindered the growth of Portuguese plantation prosperity. Soon after, however, similar crises aided Portuguese military conquest in Angola by weakening African ability to mobilize effective resistance. In the twentieth century malnutrition continued to be the most widespread problem of Angola's Africans and on occasion it drove them to revolt.
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                Journal
                rbh
                Revista Brasileira de História
                Rev. Bras. Hist.
                Associação Nacional de História - ANPUH (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                0102-0188
                1806-9347
                May 2023
                : 43
                : 93
                : 225-263
                Affiliations
                [1] Toronto Ontario orgnameYork University Canada jccurto@ 123456yorku.ca
                Article
                S0102-01882023000200225 S0102-0188(23)04309300225
                10.1590/1806-93472023v43n93-12
                8fabe3c9-88af-45cd-9478-9b3da71509bb

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 28 December 2021
                : 21 February 2022
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                Slave-owners,Work,Captives,Moçâmedes,Angola,trabalho,cativos,proprietários de escravizados

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