The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670

A Documentary History

By: Malyn Newitt (Editor)

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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples of North and West Africa in the period from 1400 to 1650. This period witnessed the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, the emigration of Portuguese to West Africa and the islands, and the beginnings of the black diaspora associated with the slave trade. The documents show how the Portuguese tried to understand the societies with which they came into contact and to reconcile their experience with the myths and legends inherited from classical and medieval learning. They also show how Africans reacted to the coming of Europeans, adapting Christian ideas to local beliefs and making use of exotic imports and European technologies. The documents also describe the evolution of the black Portuguese communities in Guinea and the islands, as well as the slave trade and the way that it was organized, understood, and justified.

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'... the book fills a significant gap. It will presumably reach a wide audience ... and should encourage interested readers to proceed from here to the sources themselves. ... it should also motivate scholars to complete for publication the translations of Alvares, Alvares de Almada, Lemos Coelho ...' The Journal of African History

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List of Maps	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Portuguese in Morocco	p. 25
The Portuguese celebrate Mass in the mosque in Ceuta, 1415	p. 25
Christians and Moors - single combat in the struggle to control Ceuta during the Moroccan wars	p. 28
The Moors of Massa recognize Portuguese overlordship	p. 31
Letter Patent of Dom Manuel to the Jews of Safi, 1509	p. 35
Letter of João de Meneses to Dom Manuel on the state of Azamour, 1514	p. 37
The Portuguese of Azamour raid the Bedouins, 1519	p. 40
The early voyages to west Africa	p. 43
Prince Henry 'the Navigator' is remembered	p. 43
Slave raiding on the Sahara coast, 1445	p. 44
The Portuguese run into opposition, 1446	p. 47
Duarte Pacheco Pereira tries to come to terms with 'difference'	p. 51
The Atlantic Islands	p. 55
Madeira and the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century	p. 55
How to survive tropical heat and disease	p. 60
Sugar and slaves	p. 61
Hunting escaped slaves in São Tomé	p. 63
New Christians have poisoned the bishop of São Tomé	p. 65
The Upper Guinea Coast and Sierra Leone	p. 67
Cadamosto meets Budomel	p. 67
Markets and dances: Africa responds to Europe	p. 71
The Wolof kingdom at the end of the fifteenth century	p. 74
Relations between the coastal peoples of Upper Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands	p. 78
Trade and piracy on the Senegal coast	p. 82
The slave trade and royal luxury in the land of the Bussis	p. 85
Elmina and Benin	p. 90
The foundation of the castle and city of São Jorge da Mina, 1482	p. 90
The importance of reaching an accommodation with the private traders	p. 96
Christianity and the Obas of Benin	p. 97
Discovery of the Kingdom of Kongo	p. 100
The Manisonyo embraces Christianity, 1491	p. 100
The arrival of the Portuguese embassy at the Kongo Court, 1491	p. 103
The king of Kongo is baptized and goes to war, 1491	p. 106
The province of Mbata and its relations with the Portuguese and the Kongo king	p. 108
The accession of Dom Afonso I of Kongo	p. 111
Relations between Kongo and the Portuguese of São Tomé	p. 116
Angola, Paulo Dias and the founding of Luanda	p. 121
Early relations with Angola	p. 121
Donation charter to Paulo Dias de Novais, 1571	p. 123
Warfare in the Kongo and Angola	p. 136
The escape of Paulo Dias from Angola and the founding of Luanda	p. 142
The slave trade	p. 148
The arrival of slaves from west Africa in Lagos, 1444	p. 148
The slave trade is good for the Kongo	p. 151
The slave trade from west Africa to the Cape Verde Islands in the sixteenth century	p. 153
The slave trade in the Cape Verde Islands, 1594	p. 155
Conflict in the kingdom of Kongo in the 1560s	p. 159
Christianity and a disputed succession in the kingdom of Kongo	p. 159
The Jaga invasions	p. 162
Christianity in the Kongo	p. 167
Support sought from Portugal to maintain the true faith	p. 167
Noble Kongolese youths are sent to Portugal and Rome to be educated, 1539	p. 169
Report of the visit ad limina of Francisco de Villanova, bishop of São Tomé, 1597	p. 171
Maleficium and its forms	p. 174
The Angolan wars	p. 178
Conflict between the Portuguese and Kongo in the early seventeenth century	p. 178
The life of Dom Pedro II Afonso	p. 181
An Essex man in the Angolan wars	p. 183
War in the reed beds - Angola after the expulsion of the Dutch	p. 186
Account of the battle of Mbwila, 1665	p. 192
Portuguese defeat in Sonyo in 1670	p. 200
People and places	p. 205
The town of Cacheu in the early seventeenth century	p. 205
São Salvador, capital of the kingdom of Kongo	p. 209
The Court of the kings of Kongo	p. 211
Losses suffered by white traders	p. 214
The kingdom of Kongo in 1595	p. 218
The laws and customs of the Wolofs	p. 226
Black ants, Tangomaos and the Bagas	p. 228
Glossary	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 239
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