Family and labour in an Angolan cash-crop economy, 1910
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چکیده
This paper examines the composition of families in parish São José de Encoge, northern Angola, early colonial era, using a series ‘family bulletins’ collected by Portuguese government 1910. Encoge was one earliest centres coffee cultivation west-central Africa. While not all local participated this economy, census sheds light on family-based cash-crop production after abolition slavery Angola. The literature post-slavery labour arrangements Africa almost unanimously suggests that family-extension strategies predominantly aimed to integrate young women and girls into households, pawnship guardianship as important methods. family bulletins from provide means evaluate assumption quantitative basis an Angolan context. They indicate that, besides natural reproduction adoption second wives, incorporation wards, nephews, nieces most common form household extension, which elders showed remarkable preference for male dependants. do clear evidence presence enslaved dependants, although some individuals listed servants were possibly enslaved. Overall, data suggest contrary assumptions about agricultural Africa, trade did discriminate against men or boys.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The history of the family
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1873-5398', '1081-602X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602x.2023.2179095