| Title: | Angola |
| Original Title: | Angola |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 465 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Lauren Yoder [Davidson College] |
| Subject terms: |
Modern geography
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Angola." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Lauren Yoder. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.043>. Trans. of "Angola," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Angola." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Lauren Yoder. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.043 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Angola," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:465 (Paris, 1751). |
Angola, African kingdom in the Congo, between the Dande and the Coanza rivers. Its coast provides Europeans with the best Negroes; the Portuguese are powerful on this continent and they carry away so many inhabitants that it is surprising that they haven't depopulated the country. In exchange for Negroes they give cloth, feathers, fabric, canvas, lace, wines, alcohol, spices, hardware, sugar, fish hooks, pins, needles, etc. The Portuguese have a settlement at Benguela that is so unhealthy they send their criminals there. See Benguela.