Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
The Rise of a New Consciousness: Early Euro-African Voices of Dissent in Colonial Angola
Title Information (lang="por")
Title
O Surgimento de Uma Nova Consciência: As Primeiras Vozes Euro-Africanas de Dissidência na Angola Colonial
Name: Personal
Name Part
Corrado, Jacopo
affiliation
University of Essex
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
author
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
articles
Origin Information
Date Issued
Winter 2007
Date Issued (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
2007-12
Language (usage="primary")
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
por
Physical Description
Extent
15 p.
digitalOrigin
born digital
Abstract (lang="eng")
Events such as the 1820 Liberal Revolution in Portugal and the 1822 declaration of independence in Brazil appeared to the Creole elite based in the coastal centers of Portuguese West Africa as the prelude to a new socio-political order. Moreover, the arrival of hundreds of political refugees and convicts in Angola—from Brazil as well as from Europe—during the decade of 1820-30 helped considerably in spreading revolutionary ideas on that side of the Atlantic Ocean, fueling the hopes and aspirations of a society in which individuals or families were exposed to sudden and at times unpredictable alterations of their social status—often more than once in a lifetime, as the cases of Arsénio Pompílio Pompeude Carpo and Joaquim António de Carvalho e Meneses would seem to confirm. This paper focuses on these two paradigmatic figures who embodied the discontent that spread among Luanda and Benguela traders and who confronted the authorities as nobody else dared to do in order to defend the interests of a Euro-African elite that, already during the first half of the 19th century, was struggling for more power and was progressively assuming an attitude suggestive of some kind of economic nationalism.
Abstract (lang="por")
A revolução liberal de 1820 em Portugal e a declaração de independência no Brasil em 1822 foram acontecimentos vistos pela elite crioula implantada nas regiões costeiras da África Ocidental como um prelúdio para uma nova ordem política e social. Entre 1820 e 1830, com a chegada de centenas de refugiados políticos a Angola, provenientes do Brasil e da Europa, foi facilitada a difusão das ideais liberais, circunstância que trouxe algum alento a uma sociedade onde o percurso de muitos dos seus membros se tornava por vezes imprevisível, como aconteceu com homens como Arsénio Pompílio Pompeu de Carpo e Joaquim António de Carvalho e Meneses. Este artigo focaliza precisamente estas duas figuras paradigmáticas que personificaram o descontentamento vivido pelos comerciantes de Luanda e Benguela, os quais confrontavam as autoridades na defesa dos interesses de uma elite euro-africana.
Part
Part Detail: volume
Part Number
5
Part Caption
vol.
Part Detail: issue
Part Number
2
Part Caption
no.
Part Detail: article
Part Number
4
Part Caption
no.
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Creoles
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Opposition (Political science)
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Angola
Topic
History
Temporal
19th century
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Liberalism
Related Item: Host
Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
e-Journal of Portuguese History
Part Number
vol. 5, no. 2
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/qdsg-m332