A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance - Capoeira Music

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MAp 1.1. The transatlantic slave trade to Brazil, 1817–1843. University of Wisconsin
Cartography Lab.
Cabinda played a central role in the slave trade. Besides Cabinda, several other
ports in the same region supplied slaves to meet the increasing demand: Loango,
Mayumba, and Malemba (Map 1.2).30 slaves from Gabon (called Gabão) and
from Boma, tio Kingdom, the Zaire river, and Ubangi were all categorized as
northern Kongolese. The name “Congo” was commonly given to slaves from
the northern Congo, although the network of slave trading collected them from
hundreds of diverse nations along the Zaire river. slaves from Bakongo, northern
angola, and southern Zaire were also called “Congo.” another group, constituting
about a third of all the slaves brought to rio, were known as “angola.”
in the nineteenth century the angola slaves came mainly from Luanda, which
was at the time a major portuguese port, and from Cassange. although this area
was quite small, it comprised several ethnic groups. after the British put a stop
to shipping slaves from there, the volume of the slave trade in the neighboring
port of ambriz increased. slaves known as Cassange were transported from the
markets of Cassange in eastern angola. The names ambaca, rebolo, Quissama,
and Luanda were also well known and widespread. The Benguela, in modernday
angola, constituted a separate group, the largest, brought to rio de Janeiro.
They were named for their port of departure, Benguela, in southern angola, and
this port also became an important slave trading center after the english closed
the port of Luanda to slave ships. included in this category were the ovimbundu
and the Ganguela.