Seminário CH-ULisboa: História de África & Aula Aberta
African Responses to the Early Atlantic Slave Trade in Senegambia (1500-1660)

Peter Mark (Goethe Universität Frankfurt/CH-ULisboa)

23 de Fevereiro de 2023

18 horas | FLUL, Sala B112.B e Online

Videoconferência: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91259604483?pwd=QVIrQjQwT2pRNUc0K1FmN1lHaGNiQT09

Organização | Carlos Almeida, Eugénia Rodrigues, José da Silva Horta e Philipp Hofmann

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Seminário CH-ULisboa | História de África
Aula Aberta | Mestrado e Doutoramento em História: Seminário de Problemáticas Regionais na História de África

African Responses to the early Atlantic slave trade in Senegambia (1500-1660)

Peter Mark
Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa
Goethe Universität Frankfurt    

14 de Fevereiro de 2023
FLUL | B112.B e Online | 18h00-20h00

Organização
Carlos Almeida
Eugénia Rodrigues
José da Silva Horta
Philipp Hofmann

Link para acesso por videoconferência: 
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91259604483?pwd=QVIrQjQwT2pRNUc0K1FmN1lHaGNiQT09
ID da reunião: 912 5960 4483
Senha de acesso: Africa
 

Abstract: When Portuguese mariners reached the Senegambian coast shortly before 1450, they quickly engaged in taking small numbers of captives back to Lisbon. By the 1580s several thousand Africans a year were taken. Africans responded rapidly and in several ways to the development of this slave trade. They protected themselves by moving into remote or geographically protected areas; they learned to defend themselves and to capture their aggressors. Some, such as the Bijogo, actively entered the slave trade, even capturing Portuguese. Finally, several communities of escaped slaves were established. These maroon communities were composed in part or entirely of captives who had escaped from the Portuguese.