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    <mods:titleInfo lang="eng">
        <mods:title>The South Atlantic and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Review Essay</mods:title>
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    <mods:titleInfo lang="por">
        <mods:title>O Atlântico Sul e o Tráfico Transatlânico de Escravos: Resenha</mods:title>
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    <mods:name type="personal" authority="orcid" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/identifiers/orcid.html" valueURI="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2324-5871">
        <mods:namePart>Almeida Borges, Graça</mods:namePart>
        <mods:affiliation>Universidade de Évora</mods:affiliation>
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        <mods:dateIssued>June 2017</mods:dateIssued>
        <mods:dateIssued keyDate="yes" encoding="w3cdtf">2017-06</mods:dateIssued>
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        <mods:extent>pp. 153-175</mods:extent>
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    <mods:abstract lang="eng">This essay will review two recent books on the transatlantic slave trade, which privilege the Southern Atlantic dynamics of this trade. Centred on the common contributions of both works, this article will address two main issues: firstly, it will reflect upon the southern directions that the study of transatlantic slave trade is experiencing, focusing on the importance of ‘trans-regional’ and ‘trans-national’ approaches, and on the importance of African agency; secondly, it will address the operational capacities of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database to the field, thoroughly used in both volumes, which will serve as an excuse to briefly reflect upon the importance of Digital Humanities as a whole.</mods:abstract>
    <mods:abstract lang="por">Esta reflexão historiográfica recenseará dois livros recentes sobre o tráfico de escravos transatlântico que privilegiam o Atlântico sul. Focado principalmente nos elementos que os dois livros têm em comum, o artigo tratará de dois temas: em primeiro lugar, reflectirá sobre a atenção que o Atlântico sul tem recebido pela parte dos estudos sobre o tráfico de escravos transatlântico, focando-se na importância das abordagens ‘trans-regionais’ e ‘trans-nacionais’ e na importância da agência africana; em segundo lugar, tratará das capacidades operacionais que a Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, abundantemente utilizada em ambos os volumes, tem trazido a este campo de estudo, o que servirá de pretexto, por sua vez, para pensar brevemente sobre a importância das Humanidades Digitais.</mods:abstract>

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            <mods:number>15</mods:number>
            <mods:caption>vol.</mods:caption>
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            <mods:number>1</mods:number>
            <mods:caption>no.</mods:caption>
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            <mods:start>153</mods:start>
            <mods:end>175</mods:end>
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    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:topic>Slave trade</mods:topic>
        <mods:geographic>South America</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:topic>Slave trade</mods:topic>
        <mods:geographic>Africa, West</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:geographic>South Atlantic Ocean</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:topic>Digital Humanities</mods:topic>
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    <mods:relatedItem type="host">
        <mods:titleInfo>
            <mods:title>e-Journal of Portuguese History</mods:title>
            <mods:partNumber>vol. 15, no. 1</mods:partNumber>
        </mods:titleInfo>
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<mods:identifier xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" type="doi">10.26300/2j29-5h39</mods:identifier></mods:mods>