Princeton University

Mariana P. Candido specializes in the history of Angola during the 18th and 19th centuries. Her current research examines the social and political effects of the transatlantic slave trade in Benguela and its hinterland. More broadly her interests include the history of slavery; forced migration and slave trade; the South Atlantic world; and the African diaspora. A network professor of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, she earned her BA from the University Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, her MA in African Studies from El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico, and her PhD in African History from York University in Toronto. Mariana Candido began teaching at Princeton in the fall of 2008. She is the author of Las redes de esclavitud en un puerto del Atlantic Sur: Comercio e Identidad en Benguela,1780-1850 (El Colegio de Mexico Press, forthcoming) and the co-author of Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora with Ana Lucia Araújo and Paul Lovejoy (Africa World Press, forthcoming).

Teaching Interests:
Precolonial African history, particularly on migration, identity, slavery, and slave trade. Professor Candido has recently taught a junior seminar on comparative slavery and a survey course on Precolonial African history. She has also taught graduate seminars on Precolonial African history and African slavery. 

Recent Publications:
“Merchants and the Business of the Slave Trade in Benguela, c. 1750-1850,” African Economic History, 35 (2008)
“Trade, Slavery and Migration in the Interior of Benguela: the case of the Caconda, 1830-1870,” Beatrix Heintz and Achim von Oppen, Angola on the Move: Transport Routes, Communications, and History (Frankfurt: Otto Lemberck Publishers, 2008)