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Angola and the Atlantic Slave Trade: The #Slaveryarchive Reading List

Alencastro, Luiz Felipe de. 2018. The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Araujo, Ana Lucia. 2024. Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Araujo, Ana Lucia. 2024. The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Candido, Mariana P. 2013. An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Candido, Mariana P. 2022. Wealth, Land and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Ferreira, Roquinaldo Amaral. 2012. Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Fromont, Cécile. 2014. The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press.

Fromont, Cécile. 2022. Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Green, Toby. 2019. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Heywood, Linda M. 2017. Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Heywood, Linda M., and John K. Thornton. 2007. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lingna Nafafé, José. 2022. Lourenço Da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Miller, Joseph Calder. 1997. Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830. University of Wisconsin Press.

Oliveira, Vanessa S. 2021. Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press.

Silva, Daniel B. Domingues. 2017. The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Sweet, James H. 2003. Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Thornton, John K. 2020. A History of West Central Africa to 1850. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

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