v.oliveira@rmc-cmr.ca
Dr. Vanessa S. Oliveira is a specialist in African history and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. She teaches courses on early and modern Africa, European colonialism, research methodology, and women, gender and sexualities. Dr. Oliveira earned a PhD in history from York University and was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Toronto before joining RMC. Her book Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in January 2021. She is the editor (with Paul E. Lovejoy) of Slavery, Memory and Citizenship (Africa World Press, 2016) and has published several articles and book chapters in English and Portuguese on women merchants, intercultural marriages and slavery in Luanda, the capital of Angola. Dr. Oliveira has conducted fieldwork and archival research in Angola, Portugal, Brazil and Canada. Her research interests include women merchants, slavery, slave trade, and the transition to the so-called legitimate commerce in tropical commodities in Angola.
Keywords: Slavery, Slave trade, Women merchants, Tropical commodities