This session will be based on my most recent book, Wealth, Land and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery and Inequality , which discuss how African rulers and people expressed ideas about wealth and rights before the 20th century. In this book, I challenge the idea that African societies lacked property rights. I trace local forms of knowledge and rights and how they were dismissed. I examine dispossession historically and the role of scholars in legitimizing violence and colonialism.

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Biography:

Mariana P. Candido is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor of History and the director of the Institute of African Studies, at Emory University. Dr. Candido is a specialist in West Central African history during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Her books have received awards, including the 2023 African Studies Association Best Book Award in African Studies for Wealth, Land and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery and Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Her previous book, An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland (Cambridge University Press, 2013); received an honorable mention / African Studies Association. She has also published Fronteras de Esclavización: Esclavitud, Comercio e Identidad en Benguela, 1780-1850 (Colegio de Mexico Press, 2011), translated into Portuguese Fronteras da Escravização (Universidade Katyavala Bwila, 2018). Candido has organized A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2024); co-edited with Adam Jones, African Women in the Atlantic World. Property, Vulnerability and Mobility, 1680-1880 (James Currey, 2019); Carlos Liberato, Paul Lovejoy and Renée Soulodre-La France, Laços Atlânticos: África e africanos durante a era do comércio transatlântico de escravos (Museu Nacional da Escravatura/ Ministério da Cultura, 2017); and Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, with Ana Lucia Araujo and Paul Lovejoy (African World Press, 2011). She has also authored more than 30 articles.

In 2022, Mariana Candido was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK; the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, the American Academy in Berlin, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and the Luso-American Foundation. Since 2016, Candido is one of the editors of the African Economic History and, since 2018, she serves as one of the five associate editors of the Oxford Encyclopedia Research of Slavery, Slave Trade and Diaspora.

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