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- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
- Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Municipal Council of Luanda and the Politics of the Portuguese Governors in Angola
- 2 Ndongo’s Political and Cultural Environment: Alliance, Internal Struggle, Puppeteering and Decline
- 3 The Journey of Mendonça: The Princes of Pungo-Andongo in Brazil
- 4 Mendonça’s Journey to Portugal and Spain, and the Network of the Hebrew Nation and Indigenous Americans
- 5 Mendonça’s Discourse in the Vatican: Liberation as a Wider Atlantic Question
- 6 Mendonça’s Quest for Abolition and the Tussle between the Portuguese Overseas Council and the House of Ndongo
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - The Municipal Council of Luanda and the Politics of the Portuguese Governors in Angola
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2022
- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
- Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Municipal Council of Luanda and the Politics of the Portuguese Governors in Angola
- 2 Ndongo’s Political and Cultural Environment: Alliance, Internal Struggle, Puppeteering and Decline
- 3 The Journey of Mendonça: The Princes of Pungo-Andongo in Brazil
- 4 Mendonça’s Journey to Portugal and Spain, and the Network of the Hebrew Nation and Indigenous Americans
- 5 Mendonça’s Discourse in the Vatican: Liberation as a Wider Atlantic Question
- 6 Mendonça’s Quest for Abolition and the Tussle between the Portuguese Overseas Council and the House of Ndongo
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 1 deals with the Municipal Council of Luanda and the politics of Portuguese governors in Angola in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, detailing how the Municipal Council of Luanda was involved in illegal wars , treachery and robbery in capturing and enslaving Angolans and shipping them to Brazil on behalf of Portugal. It demonstrates how the Municipal Council of Luanda became the site of political intrigue, jealousy, deceit and mutiny in a political landscape in which the main drive was for economic gain; the enslavement of Angolans was the key part of that package. The methods deployed to capture them – wars, pillage, treachery – formed the basis for Mendonça’s Vatican court case.
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- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century , pp. 57 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022