The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 : a documentary history /
"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...
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Cambridge New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The Portuguese in Morocco
- The early voyages to West Africa
- The Atlantic islands
- The upper Guinea coast and Sierra Leone
- Elmina and Benin
- Discovery of the kingdom of Kongo
- Angola, Paulo Dias and the founding of Luanda
- The slave trade
- Conflict in the kingdom of Kongo in the 1560s
- Christianity in the Kongo
- The Angolan wars
- People and places.