Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume III
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Spanish Empire
- Part II Brazil, Portugal, and Africa
- 16 Overview: The Independence Era in the Luso-Brazilian World
- 17 Portugal’s Social and Political Change from the Ancien Régime to Liberalism
- 18 Conservative Tracks toward Independence: Transfer of the Court to Rio de Janeiro, the Porto Revolution, and Brazilian Autonomy
- 19 Building New Brazilian Institutions
- 20 Slaves, Indians, and the “Classes of Color”: Popular Participation in Brazilian Independence
- 21 Brazil and the Independence of Spanish America: Parallel Trajectories, Linked Processes (1807–1825)
- 22 Waves of Sedition across the Atlantic: Liberal Politics in Angola in the Wake of Brazilian Independence (c. 1817–1825)
- Index
22 - Waves of Sedition across the Atlantic: Liberal Politics in Angola in the Wake of Brazilian Independence (c. 1817–1825)
from Part II - Brazil, Portugal, and Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2023
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume III
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Spanish Empire
- Part II Brazil, Portugal, and Africa
- 16 Overview: The Independence Era in the Luso-Brazilian World
- 17 Portugal’s Social and Political Change from the Ancien Régime to Liberalism
- 18 Conservative Tracks toward Independence: Transfer of the Court to Rio de Janeiro, the Porto Revolution, and Brazilian Autonomy
- 19 Building New Brazilian Institutions
- 20 Slaves, Indians, and the “Classes of Color”: Popular Participation in Brazilian Independence
- 21 Brazil and the Independence of Spanish America: Parallel Trajectories, Linked Processes (1807–1825)
- 22 Waves of Sedition across the Atlantic: Liberal Politics in Angola in the Wake of Brazilian Independence (c. 1817–1825)
- Index
Summary
This chapter investigates the reverberations of the Oporto liberal revolution and Brazilian independence on the Portuguese colony of Angola in West Central Africa. Angola was the largest supplier of enslaved labor for recently independent Brazil, yet the ties between the two regions stretched well beyond the transatlantic slave trade. A cultural and social continuum connected the South Atlantic World, and the chapter argues that such ties acquired a political dimension in the wake of the Oporto revolution and Brazil’s secession from Portugal. To trace how Angola’s coastal elites responded to the end of Portuguese colonialism in Brazil, the chapter reconstructs the trajectory of a single individual, the Luanda born Domingos Pereira Diniz, who became the president of the Benguela Junta, a governmental body which endorsed a petition in which Benguela’s elite requested the right to become an overseas province of independent Brazil.
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- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions , pp. 567 - 588Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023