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Counting People and Homes in Urban Mozambique in the 1820s

Population Structures and Household Size and Composition

FILIPA RIBEIRO DA SILVA
African Economic History, January 2017, 45 (1) 46-76; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.45.1.46
FILIPA RIBEIRO DA SILVA
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Filipa obtained her PhD at Leiden University in 2009, after reading History and History of Portuguese Oceanic Expansion at the New University of Lisbon, where she received her BA (honors) and Master’s degree in 1996 and 2002. Her research interests include Economic and Social History, Maritime History and Labor History in sub-Saharan Africa. She has published on the Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa and the Atlantic system, on labor migration to Atlantic Africa, and on historical demography and labor relations in Mozambique.
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In recent years, important contributions have been made to improve our understanding of household size and composition worldwide. Most of this scholarship, however, has focused mainly on Europe, Asia, and the Americas, paying little attention to Africa. In this article, I contribute toward filling this gap in the literature by studying the urban population of three main towns in Mozambique and their surrounding areas in the 1820s: the island of Mozambique, Inhambane and Tete. To do this, I use the first known and comparable population counts available for these towns that include disaggregated data at the household level. The study is divided into three main parts. First, I explore the outstanding value of these source materials for the general understanding of the behavior of urban populations in pre-colonial southern Africa, as well as the context of the production and the producers of these sources, their coverage and the criteria adopted during production. Next, I examine the profile of the population living in these three urban centers. To conclude, I analyze the household size, structure and composition among the free population living in these three towns and their outskirts.

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