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  • 2 - Ndongo’s Political and Cultural Environment: Alliance, Internal Struggle, Puppeteering and Decline

  • José Lingna Nafafé, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
    Published online:
    18 August 2022
    Print publication:
    25 August 2022, pp 138-192

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 introduces the kingdom of Ndongo and focuses on its relationship to Kongo in terms of political and social structures. It looks at the election of Philipe Hari I to the throne of Pungo-Andongo, examining his rivalry with and family ties to Queen Njinga, and how the Portuguese used his election to foster trade relationships in Angola by introducing the baculamento tax system. The chapter then explores the role of João Hari II (Dom João de Sousa), also known as Ngola Aiidi, the son who succeeded Hari I, and the ideology of Francisco de Távora ‘Cajanda’, the Portuguese governor of Luanda at the time. It investigates the destruction of Pungo-Andongo and the sending of the kingdom’s princes and princesses, Queen Njinga’s nephews and nieces, to Brazil. The chapter is concerned with exploring the political environment of Angola and the wider region as the backdrop to Mendonça’s debate on freedom and enslaved Africans in the Atlantic region.