Enslaving Spirits
Subtitle: The Portuguese-Brazilian Alcohol Trade at Luanda and Its Hinterland, C. 1550-1830 (The Atlantic World, 2)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789004131750
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Food manufacturing & related industries; International - General; General; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; Africa; Brazil; Liquor industry; Interior Design - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Angola; History; Slave trade
First sentence: In his account of the mid-fifteenth century Portuguese "discoveries" along the coast of West Africa, the chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara stated with some astonishment that the inhabitants of this region did not know of vinho or wine extracted from grapes.