Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa
Empires, Merchants and the Atlantic System, 1580-1674
Biographical note
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Ph.D. (2009) in History, Leiden University, is Post-doctoral fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. She has published on Iberian and Dutch Colonial History in several collections and journals.
Readership
All those interested in Atlantic and African History, the history of the Slave Trade, and the history of Jewish Diaspora, as well as specialists in Empire, Migration and Institutions.
Table of contents
List of Diagrams, Graphs, Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
1. Institutions
2. Labour Migration and colonial societies
3. Intra- and inter-continental trade in, to and via Western Africa
4. Private investment, agency and networks
5. Source Material
6. Structure
Part I: Building Atlantic empires: The Dutch and the Portuguese models of settlement in Western Africa
1. Building institutions
1. Administrative institutions
2. Military institutions
3. Judicial institutions
4. Commercial and fiscal institutions
2. Sending people: Labour migration and forced labour
1. European migrants
1.1. Free migrants
1.2. Forced migrants
2.Forced African migrants: Enslaved and manumitted Africans
3. Locally recruited personnel
3.1. Free Africans
3.2. Mixed descent workers and European settlers
4. European labour markets and Western Africa
5. Policies of settlement and Western Africa
3. Three: Shaping colonial societies
1. Europeans
2. Africans
2.1. Enslaved and manumitted Africans
2.2. Free Africans
3. Mixed descent population
4. Impact of social organization in the building of the Atlantic empires
Part II: Western Africa in the Dutch and the Portuguese Atlantic economies
4. Sailing in African Waters: Coastal areas and hinterland
1. Routes
2. Coastal trade, inter-racial relationships and settlement
3. Trading practices
4. Western African supply markets
5. Western African consumption markets
5. Struggling for the Atlantic: The inter-continental trade
1. Routes
2. Shipping
3. Supply markets
4. Products and enslaved Africans
4.1. Gold
4.2. Enslaved Africans
5. Consumption markets
6. Integration of the markets
6. Doing business with Western Africa: Private investors, agency and commercial networks
1. European entrepreneurs
2. European businessmen
3. Agents
4. Trans-imperial networks
5. Cross-cultural interactions
Conclusion: New insights on Dutch-Portuguese rivalries in the Atlantic
Bibliography
1. Primary sources
2. Published sources
3. Secondary literature
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
1. Institutions
2. Labour Migration and colonial societies
3. Intra- and inter-continental trade in, to and via Western Africa
4. Private investment, agency and networks
5. Source Material
6. Structure
Part I: Building Atlantic empires: The Dutch and the Portuguese models of settlement in Western Africa
1. Building institutions
1. Administrative institutions
2. Military institutions
3. Judicial institutions
4. Commercial and fiscal institutions
2. Sending people: Labour migration and forced labour
1. European migrants
1.1. Free migrants
1.2. Forced migrants
2.Forced African migrants: Enslaved and manumitted Africans
3. Locally recruited personnel
3.1. Free Africans
3.2. Mixed descent workers and European settlers
4. European labour markets and Western Africa
5. Policies of settlement and Western Africa
3. Three: Shaping colonial societies
1. Europeans
2. Africans
2.1. Enslaved and manumitted Africans
2.2. Free Africans
3. Mixed descent population
4. Impact of social organization in the building of the Atlantic empires
Part II: Western Africa in the Dutch and the Portuguese Atlantic economies
4. Sailing in African Waters: Coastal areas and hinterland
1. Routes
2. Coastal trade, inter-racial relationships and settlement
3. Trading practices
4. Western African supply markets
5. Western African consumption markets
5. Struggling for the Atlantic: The inter-continental trade
1. Routes
2. Shipping
3. Supply markets
4. Products and enslaved Africans
4.1. Gold
4.2. Enslaved Africans
5. Consumption markets
6. Integration of the markets
6. Doing business with Western Africa: Private investors, agency and commercial networks
1. European entrepreneurs
2. European businessmen
3. Agents
4. Trans-imperial networks
5. Cross-cultural interactions
Conclusion: New insights on Dutch-Portuguese rivalries in the Atlantic
Bibliography
1. Primary sources
2. Published sources
3. Secondary literature
Index
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