Gender, Foodstuff Production and Trade in Late-Eighteenth Century Luanda

†Vanessa S. Oliveira is a Ph.D. candidate in History at York University. Her dissertation, “The Donas of Luanda, ca. 1773–1870: From Atlantic Slave Trading to ‘Legitimate Commerce,’” focuses on the Portuguese Colony of Angola. She has published articles in the History in Africa, Portuguese Studies Review, Revista Vestígios, and Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Sergipe as well as book chapters in edited volumes in Brazil and Portugal.