PhD student, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Currently writing his PhD dissertation on the slave trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There is probably nobody at present who knows the Angolan archives better than him.   

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Selected Bibliography:

–   “Brasil e Angola no Tráfico Ilegal de Escravos, 1830–1860”, in: Selma Pantoja and José Flávio Sombra Saraiva (eds.), Angola e Brasil nas Rotas do Atlântico do Sul. Rio de Janeiro 1999, pp. 143-194;

–   “Fontes para o Estudo da Escravidão em Angola: Luanda e Icolo e Bengo no Pós-Tráfico de Escravos”, in: Construindo o passado angolano: as fontes e a sua interpretação. Actas do II Seminário internacional sobre a história de Angola, Luanda, 4 a 9 de Agosto de 1997. Lisbon 2000, pp. 667-680.

Abstract:

"Warfare in Southern Angola: Horses, Soldiers and the Development of Slaving in Benguela between 1670 and 1730"