Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola
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Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola

A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality

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eBook - PDF

Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola

A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality

About this book

Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884–5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labour. By centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Contents
  7. List of Maps and Plans
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. List of Tables and Graphs
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. A Note on Currency and Price-Level Adjustments
  12. Introduction: A History of Ownership, Dispossession, and Inequality
  13. 1 Who Owned What? Early Debate over Land Rights and Dispossession
  14. 2 Property Rights in the Nineteenth Century
  15. 3 Written Records and Gendered Strategies to Secure Property
  16. 4 Commodification of Human Beings
  17. 5 Branded in Freedom: The Persistent Commodification of People
  18. 6 The Erasure of Communal Rights
  19. 7 Global Consumers: West Central Africans and the Accumulation of Things
  20. Conclusion
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index