Enslaving Spirits - The Portuguese-Brazilian Alcohol Trade at Luanda and Its Hinterland, C. 1550-1830

This volume deals with imported alcohol at Luanda and its hinterland, where it was heavily used to acquire captives for the Atlantic slave trade. Aside from highlighting the complexities of this singular economic component of Atlantic slaving, its focus on changing West -Central African alcohol consumption patterns through the importation of foreign intoxicants reveals an important element of the social history of African societies before the modern colonial period.

About the author

José C. Curto, Ph.D. (1996) in History, University of California at Los Angeles, is Assistant Professor of History at York University (Toronto, Canada). He has published extensively on demography, slavery, and slave trading in Angola, including The Story of Nbena, 1817-1820: Unlawful Enslavement and the Concept of 'Original Freedom' in Angola, in Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman, eds. Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora (Continuum, 2004).

Product details

• Authors: José C Curto, José C. Curto
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2003
• EAN: 9789004131750
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13175-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 245 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 621 g
• Series: Atlantic World
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages