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- Title
The Depósito de Degredados in Luanda, Angola: Binding and Building the Portuguese Empire with Convict Labour, 1880s to 1932.
- Authors
Coates, Timothy J.
- Abstract
After ignoring its holdings in Africa for the first half of the nineteenth century, the European scramble for colonies in the 1880s forced the Portuguese state to adopt a new policy to cement its tenuous hold on its two largest African colonies: Angola and Mozambique. This challenge occurred just as the penal reform movement of the nineteenth century was arriving in Portugal, with a new penitentiary in Lisbon and new legal codes aimed at reforming convicts through their labour. This article examines the rationale and impact of the Depósito de Degredados (Depot for Transported Convicts) in Luanda, Angola, the larger of the two prisons established to supervise the work of convicts sent from Portugal and Portugal’s Atlantic colonies of Cape Verde, Portuguese Guinea, and São Tomé.
- Subjects
ANGOLA; HISTORY of convict labor; PORTUGUESE history; IMPERIALISM &; history; PRISON reform; SLAVE trade; ANGOLAN history; HISTORY of Mozambique; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
International Review of Social History, 2018, Vol 63, p151
- ISSN
0020-8590
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0020859018000263