African Women in Ecclesiastical Documents, Benguela, 1760–1860

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" African Women in Ecclesiastical Documents, Benguela, 1760–1860 "
Mariana P. Candido

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083429
Doc. No	:	LA127058
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02803016‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Mariana P. Candido
Title & Author	:	African Women in Ecclesiastical Documents, Benguela, 1760–1860 [Article]\ Mariana P. Candido
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	28/3-4
Page No	:	235–260
Abstract	:	Based on the analysis of ecclesiastical documents, this study explores how African women lived in the port town of Benguela from about 1760 to 1860. This period includes the height of the transatlantic slave trade, its decline and abolition, and the slow shift towards legitimate trade. Through specific cases revealed in baptism, marriage and burial records, the article presents short stories and explores African women’s interaction with foreign men, their economic roles, and their participation in a Christian community. The study also discusses how African women made use of parish venues to establish rights and to record their wishes in order to protect loved ones, in a process that secured social and economic mobility for the next generations.
Descriptor	:	African women
Descriptor	:	Angola
Descriptor	:	baptême
Descriptor	:	baptism
Descriptor	:	commerce
Descriptor	:	droits
Descriptor	:	esclavage
Descriptor	:	femmes africaines
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	mariage
Descriptor	:	marriage
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	rights
Descriptor	:	slavery
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02803016‬