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VANESSA
Last Name
OLIVEIRA
Country
Canada
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University of Toronto
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About Me

Vanessa S. Oliveira obtained a PhD in History from York University, Toronto, in 2016. Her book Abolition, Gender and Slavery at Luanda, 1808-1867 is under contract with the University of Wisconsin Press. Oliveira has published articles in History in Africa, Portuguese Studies Review, African Economic History, as well as book chapters in edited volumes. She is the co-editor with Paul Lovejoy of Slavery, Memory and Citizenship (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2016).

Recent Publications

2015 “The Gendered Dimension of Trade: Female Traders in Nineteenth Century Luanda,” Portuguese Studies Review 23:2 (2015): 93-121.

 

2015 “Gender, Foodstuff Production and Trade in Late-Eighteenth Century Luanda,” African Economic History, 43 (2015): 57-81.

 

2014 “Devoção e Distinção Étnica na Irmandade do Homens Pretos do Rosário da Cidade de São Cristóvão-Sergipe,”Portuguese Studies Review 22:2 (2014): 79-112.

 

2014 “A devoção a Nossa Senhora do Rosário em Sergipe del Rey (séc. XIX),” Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Sergipe 44:2, 313-338.

 

2013 “An Index to the Slavery and Slave Trade Enquiry: The British Parliamentary House of Commons Sessional Papers, 1788-1792,” History in Africa 40, 1-63 [with Paul E. Lovejoy].

2016 “Mulher e comércio: A participação feminina nas redes comerciais em Luanda (século XIX),” in Edvaldo Bergamo, Selma Pantoja, and Ana Claudia Silva, eds., Angola e as Angolanas: Memória, Sociedade e Cultura (São Paulo: Intermeios, 2016), 133-152.

 

2016 “Slavery and the Forgotten Women Slave Owners of Luanda (1846-1876),” in Paul E. Lovejoy and Vanessa S. Oliveira, eds., Slavery, Memory and Citizenship (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2016), 129-148.

 

2014 “Trabalho escravo e ocupações urbanas em Luanda na segunda metade do século XIX,” in Selma Pantoja e Estevam C. Thompson, eds., Em torno de Angola: narrativas, identidades e as conexões atlânticas (São Paulo: Intermeios, 2014), 265-67.

 

2013 “Notas Preliminares Sobre Punição de Escravos em Luanda (Século XIX),” in Ana Cristina Roque e Maria Manuel Torrão, ed., O Colonialismo Português: Novos Rumos da historiografia dos PALOP (Porto: Ediçõs Húmus, 2013), 155-176.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Angola
Expertise by Geography
Africa, Atlantic
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, 19th century
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Gender, Urban History, Women