Mestiçagem, estratégias de casamento e propriedade feminina no arquipélago de São Tomé e Príncipe nos séculos XVI, XVII e XVIII

No pequeno arquipélago de São Tomé e Príncipe, situado sobre a linha do Equador, um sector da população mestiça, produto das relações entre portugueses e escravas africanas, ganhará, ainda na 1ª metade do século XVI, relevância económica e reconhecimento político. Mais lento será o reconhecimento social, processo complexo em que a estratégia mestiça, da mesma forma do que a dos “brancos da terra”, passa por uma política de casamentos que se pode caracterizar como de “branqueamento” ou “desafricanização” e de que, neste artigo, são estudados vários casos, relacionando- -os com o estatuto legal de propriedade. A mulher da elite crioula, não deixando de ter um papel social próximo do de outras sociedades europeias e europeizadas do seu tempo, assume um carácter relativamente mais interventivo, sobretudo quando se trata do grupo das mulheres viúvas.ABSTRACT: The role of Creole Women in the São Tomé and Príncipe Islands during the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. During the first half of the sixteenth century, a sector of São Tomé and Príncipe’s mixed race population – the product of encounters between Portuguese colonists and african slaves – gained substantial economic and political influence. Their social recognition was, however, a slower and more complex process where the strategies of mestiços often entailed seeking marriages which could be termed as ‘whitening’ or ‘deafricanizing’, several examples of which are analysed in this article. Elite creole women, widowers in particular, assumed a relatively interventive role notwithstanding a continued subaltern position similar to those experienced by women in European or Europeanises societies of that period

a questão dos Angolares

UID/HIS/04666/2013Descendendo dos sobreviventes do naufrágio de um navio negreiro (segundo uns) ou de escravos fugidos dos engenhos de açúcar (segundo outros), os angolares encontraram, durante séculos, no interior montanhoso da ilha de São Tomé, refúgio contra a dominação dos colonizadores. Neste artigo, discute-se o problema das origens do povo angolar e acompanha-se o difícil processo da sua integração na sociedade colonial, que só se inicia, aliás, no século XIX. Descending from the survivors of the sinking of a slave ship (according to some) or from slaves fleeing the sugar mills (according to others), for centuries, the Angolares found refuge from the colonisers’ domination in the mountainous inland of São Tomé Island. This article analyses the problem of the origin of the Angolar people and describes the difficult process of its integration in the colonial society, which only began in the nineteenth centurypublishersversionpublishe

o comércio de escravos nos séculos XV e XVI

UID/HIS/04666/2013This article focuses on the slave trade between the West African coast and Portugal, from the time this trade began, in the mid-15th century, to the end of the 16th century. It seeks to examine the way this slave trade took shape and aims to identify the main ports of departure on the African coast, as well as the trading entrepôts which were created in the Cape Verde and São Tomé & Príncipe archipelagos. In relation to Lisbon, which from 1512 onward was the only Portuguese port authorised to receive slaves, this article describes the institutional framework, centred around the Casa da Guiné (Guinea House) and the Casa dos Escravos (Slave House), and the way in which African slaves were traded.publishersversionpublishe

Economia, Transportes e Capitais na relação do arquipélago de São Tomé e Príncipe com Portugal durante o século XVI

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Os africanos escravizados na América Ibérica (1500-1850)

Caderno com textos, tabelas e mapas destinados a apoiar os professores do ensino básico e secundário na exploração do recurso audio-visual "Os Africanos Escravizados na América Ibérica (séculos XVI-XIX)", disponível em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-sPk4a4p8&t=11s. Constitui um resultado do projecto de investigação RESISTANCE: Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries (n.778076-H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017

Dimensão Sociopolítica do Município de Luanda Durante o Século XVII

The Luanda municipal council was founded in the last quarter of the 16th century, at the same time the colonial regime was instituted in Angola, and was closely associated with the conquest of the territory. It was, in fact, a stable rearguard which supported the extremely violent war that governors and military forces pursued in the “sertão” (hinterland) and hence played an important political role in life in the region. One of the primary objectives of this article is to identify and study the social composition of the “moradores”, i.e. the small oligarchy from among whom municipal executives were chosen. Simultaneously, this study also examines the municipal council’s relations with the central Portuguese authorities and, locally, with the governors. Relations between the governors and the municipal council were highly competitive, as both sought to undermine the other and assimilate their respective competences