The collection features the work of a number of York graduate students (current and former) such as Estevam C. Thompson, Vanessa S. Oliveira, Tracy Lopes, and Maryann Buri as well as faculty and researchers associated with York in various ways, such as John S. Saul, Frank Luce, and Marçal de Menezes Paredes.

José C. Curto, ed. (with the assistance of Maryann Buri), New Perspectives on Angola: From Slaving Colony to Nation State. Peterborough: Baywolf Press / Éditions Baywolf, 2021. ISBN_978-0-921437-55-0

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José C. Curto, “Introduction” 

Part 1. Aspects of Angola between the South Atlantic and the Lunda

1. The Expansion of Lunda: A New Look at Motivations, John K. Thornton

2. The Aftermath of the Battle of Pungo Andongo (1671): The Atlantic Fate of the Princes of Ndongo, Silvia H. Lara

3. Freedom Through Slavery: The Atlantic Journey of a Brazilian Slave, c.1775-1818, Estevam C. Thompson

Part 2. Daily Life in Coastal Slaving Towns: Luanda and Benguela

4 “Enterro Pelo Amor de Deus ”: Burial Space and Socio-Cultural Institutions in Eighteenth Century Benguela, Maryann Buri

5. Marriage in Benguela, 1797-1830: A Serialized Analysis, José C. Curto

6. Slave Labour and the Vulnerability of Enslaved Women in Mid-Nineteenth Century Luanda, Vanessa S. Oliveira

7. Degredados in Mid-Nineteenth Century Angola: The Case of Jozé Lourenço Marques, Chief of Luanda’s Police, Tracy Lopes

Part 3.  From Colony to Nation State 

8. Slavery in Colonial Angola: Portugal and the International Debates on “Conditions Analogous to Slavery”, 1919-1948, Catarina Madeira-Santos

9. “Party loyalties are so strong that they come before church loyalties”: Congregational Networks on the Angolan Central Plateau, 1961-1974, Frank Luce

10. The Political Discourse of Jonas Savimbi: Historicity, Scale and Power, Marçal de Menezes Paredes

11. Angola: The Counter-Revolution in the Counter-Revolution, John S. Saul

Congratulations José and all involved in this.