The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese
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Resumo: | This article is primarily concerned with quantifying the African(-born) population in the early Portuguese settlements in India and defining its linguistic profile, as a means to understand the extent and limitations of its impact on the emerging Indo-Portuguese creoles. Apart from long-established commercial links (including the slave trade) between East Africa and India, which could have facilitated linguistic interchange between the two regions, Smith (1984) and Clements (2000) also consider that the long African sojourn of all those travelling the Cape Route may have transported an African-developed pidgin to Asia. In this article, I concentrate on population displacement brought about by the slave trade. Published sources and data uncovered during archival research allow a characterisation of the African population in terms of a) their numbers (relative to the overall population), b) their origin, and c) their position within the colonial social scale. The scenario that emerges for most territories of Portuguese India is that of a significant slave population distributed over the colonial households in small numbers, in what is best described as a ‘homestead society’ (Chaudenson 1992, 2001). It is also made evident that there was a steady influx of slave imports well into the 19th century, and also that the Bantu-speaking regions of modern-day Mozambique were the primary sources of slaves for the trade with Portuguese India. |
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The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-PortugueseSlave tradeCreole languagesSociolinguisticsIndo-portugueseThis article is primarily concerned with quantifying the African(-born) population in the early Portuguese settlements in India and defining its linguistic profile, as a means to understand the extent and limitations of its impact on the emerging Indo-Portuguese creoles. Apart from long-established commercial links (including the slave trade) between East Africa and India, which could have facilitated linguistic interchange between the two regions, Smith (1984) and Clements (2000) also consider that the long African sojourn of all those travelling the Cape Route may have transported an African-developed pidgin to Asia. In this article, I concentrate on population displacement brought about by the slave trade. Published sources and data uncovered during archival research allow a characterisation of the African population in terms of a) their numbers (relative to the overall population), b) their origin, and c) their position within the colonial social scale. The scenario that emerges for most territories of Portuguese India is that of a significant slave population distributed over the colonial households in small numbers, in what is best described as a ‘homestead society’ (Chaudenson 1992, 2001). It is also made evident that there was a steady influx of slave imports well into the 19th century, and also that the Bantu-speaking regions of modern-day Mozambique were the primary sources of slaves for the trade with Portuguese India.Repositório da Universidade de LisboaCardoso, Hugo C.2017-04-20T07:53:14Z20102010-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/27495eng10.1075/jpcl.25.1.04carinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:17:57Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/27495Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:43:42.327696Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese |
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The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese |
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The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese Cardoso, Hugo C. Slave trade Creole languages Sociolinguistics Indo-portuguese |
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The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese |
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The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese |
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The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese |
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The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese |
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The African slave population of Portuguese India: Demographics and impact on Indo-Portuguese |
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Cardoso, Hugo C. |
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Cardoso, Hugo C. |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Cardoso, Hugo C. |
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Slave trade Creole languages Sociolinguistics Indo-portuguese |
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Slave trade Creole languages Sociolinguistics Indo-portuguese |
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This article is primarily concerned with quantifying the African(-born) population in the early Portuguese settlements in India and defining its linguistic profile, as a means to understand the extent and limitations of its impact on the emerging Indo-Portuguese creoles. Apart from long-established commercial links (including the slave trade) between East Africa and India, which could have facilitated linguistic interchange between the two regions, Smith (1984) and Clements (2000) also consider that the long African sojourn of all those travelling the Cape Route may have transported an African-developed pidgin to Asia. In this article, I concentrate on population displacement brought about by the slave trade. Published sources and data uncovered during archival research allow a characterisation of the African population in terms of a) their numbers (relative to the overall population), b) their origin, and c) their position within the colonial social scale. The scenario that emerges for most territories of Portuguese India is that of a significant slave population distributed over the colonial households in small numbers, in what is best described as a ‘homestead society’ (Chaudenson 1992, 2001). It is also made evident that there was a steady influx of slave imports well into the 19th century, and also that the Bantu-speaking regions of modern-day Mozambique were the primary sources of slaves for the trade with Portuguese India. |
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