RT Article
T1 Slave “Corrections” in Luanda, Angola from 1836 to 1869
JF Punishment & society
VO 24
IS 5
SP 771
OP 789
A1 Lopes, Tracy
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1822869781
AB This paper uses thousands of cases of imprisonment published under the police section of a weekly gazette entitled Boletim Oficial do Governo da Província de Angola to explore the connections between slavery and the “birth of the prison” in Luanda, the capital of the Portuguese colony of Angola between 1836 and 1869. It demonstrates that as the colonial administration gradually abolished the institution of slavery in the mid-nineteenth century, masters and mistresses sent thousands of captives to jail for “correction,” which could include imprisonment, beatings, and forced labour. By focusing on “correction” cases, this paper problematizes the dichotomy between pre-modern and modern types of punishment and demonstrates that the prison in Luanda reinforced the violence of the slaveholding class.
K1 Violence
K1 Prison
K1 Punishment
K1 Slavery
K1 Emancipation
K1 confinement
K1 Africa
K1 Angola
DO 10.1177/14624745221084117