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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Portuguese in Morocco | |
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| The Portuguese celebrate Mass in the mosque in Ceuta, 1415 | |
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| Christians and Moors - single combat in the struggle to control Ceuta during the Moroccan wars | |
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| The Moors of Massa recognize Portuguese overlordship | |
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| Letter Patent of Dom Manuel to the Jews of Safi, 1509 | |
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| Letter of Jo�o de Meneses to Dom Manuel on the state of Azamour, 1514 | |
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| The Portuguese of Azamour raid the Bedouins, 1519 | |
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| The early voyages to west Africa | |
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| Prince Henry 'the Navigator' is remembered | |
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| Slave raiding on the Sahara coast, 1445 | |
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| The Portuguese run into opposition, 1446 | |
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| Duarte Pacheco Pereira tries to come to terms with 'difference' | |
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| The Atlantic Islands | |
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| Madeira and the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century | |
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| How to survive tropical heat and disease | |
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| Sugar and slaves | |
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| Hunting escaped slaves in S�o Tom� | |
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| New Christians have poisoned the bishop of S�o Tom� | |
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| The Upper Guinea Coast and Sierra Leone | |
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| Cadamosto meets Budomel | |
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| Markets and dances: Africa responds to Europe | |
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| The Wolof kingdom at the end of the fifteenth century | |
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| Relations between the coastal peoples of Upper Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands | |
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| Trade and piracy on the Senegal coast | |
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| The slave trade and royal luxury in the land of the Bussis | |
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| Elmina and Benin | |
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| The foundation of the castle and city of S�o Jorge da Mina, 1482 | |
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| The importance of reaching an accommodation with the private traders | |
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| Christianity and the Obas of Benin | |
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| Discovery of the Kingdom of Kongo | |
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| The Manisonyo embraces Christianity, 1491 | |
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| The arrival of the Portuguese embassy at the Kongo Court, 1491 | |
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| The king of Kongo is baptized and goes to war, 1491 | |
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| The province of Mbata and its relations with the Portuguese and the Kongo king | |
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| The accession of Dom Afonso I of Kongo | |
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| Relations between Kongo and the Portuguese of S�o Tom� | |
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| Angola, Paulo Dias and the founding of Luanda | |
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| Early relations with Angola | |
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| Donation charter to Paulo Dias de Novais, 1571 | |
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| Warfare in the Kongo and Angola | |
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| The escape of Paulo Dias from Angola and the founding of Luanda | |
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| The slave trade | |
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| The arrival of slaves from west Africa in Lagos, 1444 | |
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| The slave trade is good for the Kongo | |
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| The slave trade from west Africa to the Cape Verde Islands in the sixteenth century | |
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| The slave trade in the Cape Verde Islands, 1594 | |
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| Conflict in the kingdom of Kongo in the 1560s | |
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| Christianity and a disputed succession in the kingdom of Kongo | |
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| The Jaga invasions | |
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| Christianity in the Kongo | |
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| Support sought from Portugal to maintain the true faith | |
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| Noble Kongolese youths are sent to Portugal and Rome to be educated, 1539 | |
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| Report of the visit ad limina of Francisco de Villanova, bishop of S�o Tom�, 1597 | |
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| Maleficium and its forms | |
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| The Angolan wars | |
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| Conflict between the Portuguese and Kongo in the early seventeenth century | |
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| The life of Dom Pedro II Afonso | |
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| An Essex man in the Angolan wars | |
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| War in the reed beds - Angola after the expulsion of the Dutch | |
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| Account of the battle of Mbwila, 1665 | |
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| Portuguese defeat in Sonyo in 1670 | |
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| People and places | |
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| The town of Cacheu in the early seventeenth century | |
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| S�o Salvador, capital of the kingdom of Kongo | |
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| The Court of the kings of Kongo | |
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| Losses suffered by white traders | |
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| The kingdom of Kongo in 1595 | |
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| The laws and customs of the Wolofs | |
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| Black ants, Tangomaos and the Bagas | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |