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Home / Regional / Africa / Angola / Society and Culture / History
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- Angola History - From 1575 to current date information about the history and independence.
www.africanet.com/africanet/country/angola/history.htm
- Angola in the Eighteenth Century - Slaves were obtained by agents, called pombeiros, who roamed the interior, generally following established routes along rivers. They bought slaves, called peças (pieces), from local chiefs in exchange for commodities such as cloth and wine.
lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+ao0021)
- Encyclopedia. Angola (History) - The first Portuguese colony in Angola was established in Luanda in 1575, and, except for a short Dutch occupation (1641-48).
www.encyclopedia.com/articles/00530.html
- Precolonial Angola - Although many parts of Africa has been carefully researched and preserved, there is relatively little information on the region that forms contemporary Angola as it was before the arrival of the Europeans in the late 1400s.
lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+ao0013)
- The Story of Angola and the Cocoa Islands - Chapter about Portuguese colonial rule of Angola, San Thome, and Principe from E. D. Morel's history of European imperialism in Africa, The Black Man's Burden.
www.boondocksnet.com/editions/morel/morel11.html
- Virtual History Tour of Angola - Overview of various periods in Angola's history, from the Embassy of the Republic of Angola.
www.angola.org/referenc/history/virtualtour.html
- Why Angola Matters - A book about twenty years after independence of Angola.
www.african.cam.ac.uk/ASC_home_page/publications/angola.html
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