Igor’s Reviews > Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa: Empires, Merchants and the Atlantic System, 1580-1674 > Status Update
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"h e Portuguese Crown, by contrast, sponsored the ‘export’ of exiles and orphans from the Kingdom as early as the 15th century. Cape Verde and São Tomé were the fi rst Portuguese settlements in West-ern Africa to receive forced migrants. Later, Angola also became a major destination for convicts."
People that had nothing to loose. So I can only imagine the vilonce from tho convicts.
— Mar 18, 2025 05:58PM
People that had nothing to loose. So I can only imagine the vilonce from tho convicts.
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Igor
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"In both the Dutch and the Portuguese societies in Western Africa, a third social group emerged as the outcome of inter-racial relationships between the Europeans and the Africans—the so-called Eurafricans, also mentioned in the Dutch primary sources as mulatten; and in the Portuguese as mestiços, mulatos, crioulos or fi lhos da terra."
— Mar 20, 2025 05:58PM
Igor
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More than a 'book'. It is a comprehensive academic work about the subject.
— Mar 19, 2025 06:35PM
Igor
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"Th e Dutch, in general, considered the train-ing of slaves to perform skilled activities, such as craf t work, as inef-f i cient, whereas the Portuguese trained enslaved people to carry out numerous activities from the simplest domestic tasks to hard planta-tion work and even highly skilled commercial activities."
— Mar 18, 2025 06:23PM
Igor
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"...Dutch posts, where the majority of the military staff , whether high ranking officers, skilled or unskilled soldiers were recruited and sent from Europe. Therefore, both enslaved and freed Africans played a key role in the economic growth and military defense of the Portuguese settlements in Western Africa."
Interesting.
— Mar 18, 2025 06:16PM
Interesting.
Igor
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"In order to answer the demands of the labor markets in Western Africa, European States made use of coerced migration. Both the Dutch and the Portuguese used criminal convicts and orphans to pro-mote the settlement in dif f erent areas of the Atlantic, in keeping with their general goals."
— Mar 18, 2025 05:50PM
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"Little attention has been paid to the European migration to Western Africa and the role of free and enslaved Afri-cans as a workforce in the European posts and settlements on this continent."
That is what I am looking for.
— Mar 16, 2025 05:46PM
That is what I am looking for.
