Filipa Ribeiro da Silva

By looking at Dutch and Portuguese systems of settlement and trade in Western Africa, this book sheds new light on the formation of Dutch and Portuguese imperial frames, forms of commercial organisation and their role on the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.

Empires, Merchants and the Atlantic System, 1580-1674

Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa

David Richardson

Winner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award This volume offers the first set of essays on slave trading in the South Atlantic. These studies show that the Angola-Brazil complex was not the single commercial axis in this region and that Portuguese-Brazilian merchants were not alone in this business.

Filipa Ribeiro da Silva

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