• The best books on The History of Angola (pre-20th century) - Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen by Linda Heywood
  • The best books on The History of Angola (pre-20th century) - Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira
  • The best books on The History of Angola (pre-20th century) - Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda by Vanessa Oliveira
  • The best books on The History of Angola (pre-20th century) - Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century by José Lingna Nafafé
  • The best books on The History of Angola (pre-20th century) - A History of West Central Africa to 1850 by John Thornton

The best books on The History of Angola (pre-20th century), recommended by Mariana Candido

West Central Africa was involved in the transatlantic slave trade from its inception in the fifteenth century until it ended in the late nineteenth century. It’s the region that lost the largest number of enslaved people to the transatlantic slave trade, with over 5.6 million people taken away. And yet Angola, where three of the five main slaving ports were located, is little studied in English. Here, Mariana Candido, a professor at Emory University, introduces us to some of the best books (available in English) on this era of Angolan history, from the biography of one ruler, Njinga Mbandi, to a survey of the entire period.

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  • The best books on The Slave Trade - Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
  • The best books on The Slave Trade - The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas by David Eltis
  • The best books on The Slave Trade - Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892 by Robin Law
  • The best books on The Slave Trade - American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S Morgan

The best books on The Slave Trade, recommended by William A. Pettigrew

In the 17th and 18th century millions of Africans were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas as slaves. This trade took place at the same time as ‘liberal’ ideas about the importance of human freedom took root in Great Britain and North America. Here, historian William A. Pettigrew recommends five books to help understand the slave trade, how it was established, why it flourished and why it was eventually abolished.