The international conjuncture in the transition to the XIX centuryand the formal abolition of the slave trade in the territoriesunder Portuguese colonial domination
Historical events initiated on the American continentand with globalizing repercussions
The Portuguese abolitionist ordinary legislationof the slave trade
The formal extinction of the condition of freedman and the successive creationof the status of free person and the regime of compulsory labor
CHAPTER XIV
The sparse and late sedentarization of the Portuguese in the Southof Angola in the nineteenth century and the continued widespread resistance of the natives, witnessed,as an example, in annual reportsof three governors general
The undefeated Dembos region until the seconddecade of the 20th century
"The natural condition of administration in this colonyis to make war and prepare for it"
The aggregation at the end of the 19th century of the Eastof the current territory of the country in the primitive colony of Angola
CHAPTER XV
The Berlin Conference on Africa
Some organizational aspects
Summaries of the subjects dealt with in the nine succeeding ones
Plenary Sessions of the Conference
Second Plenary Session
Third Plenary Session
Fourth Plenary Session
Fifth Plenary Session
Sixth Plenary Session
Seventh Plenary Session
Eighth Plenary Session and the initially rejected proposalof the American representation to addressthe inalienable right of Africans to disposeof their territories
Ninth Session and the cunning diplomacy that createdthe Congo Free State, a political-administrative entitythat preceded the current Democratic Republic of Congo
Tenth Session and the formal closing of the Conference
CHAPTER XVI
Effects on Angola of the Berlin Conference on Africa general contextualization
The "open door" policy and the imminence, casuallyfrustrated, of Angola slipping into German colonial jurisdiction
german colonial jurisdiction
A new paradigm of Portuguese colonization after the endof the Berlin Conference on Africa
How commercial ambition in the colonial eracontributed greatly to the promotion
of alcoholism in Angola
The conception and implementation of the indigenato regimein the 20th century
The Identity Card and the Assimilated Statusto the European culture as instruments of freedomand of social stratification of the natives
The taxation by the colonial authorities as an instrumentof domination over the natives: from the cubata taxesand indigenous to the single annual tax
CHAPTER XVII
Economic history of Angola: from the simple plunderingto the economic valorization of the territory, framedin the project of creation of the, by the colonial authoritieslonged for, New Lusitania
From the times of the Zimbo, Makuta, Angolar, Real, Escudosand foreign currencies to the institution of the banking activityin Angola
Infrastructures of terrestrial transports
First big public work: the railroad, initially called Ambaca and later Luanda
Beginning of the construction of the Moçâmedes railroad, precipitated by the heavy defeat of the Portuguese forcesthat occurred in 1905 in Cuamato
For the Benguela Railroad "God must have spenta whole night to make this magnificent port
for the Portuguese. It is the best natural harbor I have seenon the coasts of Africa or America"
How the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo indirectly contributed to the abortion of the Congo railroad, raising consequent difficultiesin the development of Northern Angola
Other railroads
Circulation and road equipment: Malanje casually anticipated all localities in the interior of Angola,in the opening of roads for automobile circulation
Entrepreneurship and professional talent of the natives
Angola's economic crisis from the second to the fourth decadesof the 20th century
The institutionalization of the First Plande Fomento de Angola
Projects foreseen in the First Plande Fomento Económico de Angola
Second Angolan Economic Development Plan
Interim, Third and Fourth Economic Plans
The paradox between the implementation of the Economic Development Plansand the prevalence of social degradationin the vast majority of the native population
CHAPTER XVIII
From the pride of the pluricontinental and multiracial empireto the swan song, as prodromes of its collapse: the only three sovereign voyagesof Portuguese heads of state to colonized Angola
Revisit the steps in Angola of the three Portuguese presidentsand infer from them the social, economic and political evolutionof the territory in the 20th century
Brief description of the demographic and economic geographyof the city of Luanda in the period between the 17th and early 20th centuries
The Treaties of Simulambuco and Soio signedbetween the Native Authorities and the Portuguese
Insalubrity of the city of Luanda and with the majorityof European citizens constitutedby criminal degredados
Continuation of the sovereignty tour of the firstPortuguese head of state to visit Angola,general António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona
Sovereign visit of the president, General FranciscoHigino Craveiro Lopes
The swan songs sung in Angola, over the decrepit and mortally wounded colonial empire, by the last Portuguese head of the New State, Admiral Américo de Deus Rodrigues Thomaz