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SUMMARY:Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Marcos Leitão de Almeida
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DESCRIPTION:The historiography of the Kingdom of Kongo has long emphasized
  the profound political transformations following the Kongolese Civil War\
 , marked by fragmentation\, factional violence\, and the expansion of ensl
 avement in response to Atlantic demands. Central to this narrative is the 
 rise of a class of oligarchs\, or “entrepreneurial nobles\,” who mobil
 ized political titles and discourses of ancestry to assert their influence
  as local power brokers and intermediaries in the trans-Atlantic trade of 
 goods and enslaved persons. In this presentation\, I discuss how Kongolese
  oligarchs reshaped the vocabulary of slavery\, actively participating in 
 the renewal of Atlantic slavery in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This 
 linguistic transformation underpinned a discourse that increasingly divorc
 ed the practice of enslavement from its previous moral constraints\, embed
 ding these strategies within the broader political and economic contexts t
 hat drove the intensification of slavery in the S.A.
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URL:https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/events/joseph-c-miller-memorial-
 lecture-by-marcos-leitao-de-almeida
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