Women, Family, and Landed Property in Nineteenth-Century Benguela

*Mariana P. Candido is an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. Candido’s research focuses on the history of West Central Africa, migration, identity formation, slavery, and gender. Her publications include Fronteras de Esclavización: Esclavitud, Comercio e Identidad en Benguela, 1780–1850 (Mexico: Colegio de Mexico Press, 2011); An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013); Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, with Ana Lucia Araujo and Paul Lovejoy (Africa World Press, 2011); and articles in History in Africa, Slavery and Abolition, Social Sciences and Missions, Portuguese Studies Review, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Luso-Brazilian Review, Afro-Ásia, Cahiers des Anneux de la Mémoire, and Brésil (s). Sciences Humaines et Sociales.