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==Immigration into Mozambique== | ==Immigration into Mozambique== | ||
*The voyage of Vasco da Gama in 1498 marked the arrival of the '''Portuguese''', who began a gradual process of colonization and settlement in 1505. The Portuguese gained control of the Island of Mozambique and the port city of Sofala in the early 16th century, and by the 1530s, small groups of Portuguese traders and prospectors seeking gold penetrated the interior regions, where they set up garrisons and trading posts at Sena and Tete on the River Zambezi and tried to gain exclusive control over the gold trade. | *The voyage of Vasco da Gama in 1498 marked the arrival of the '''Portuguese''', who began a gradual process of colonization and settlement in 1505. The Portuguese gained control of the Island of Mozambique and the port city of Sofala in the early 16th century, and by the 1530s, small groups of Portuguese traders and prospectors seeking gold penetrated the interior regions, where they set up garrisons and trading posts at Sena and Tete on the River Zambezi and tried to gain exclusive control over the gold trade. | ||
*In the central part of the Mozambique territory, the Portuguese attempted to legitimize and consolidate their trade and settlement positions '''through the creation of prazos, large estates leased to colonists, settlers and traders''' to exploit the continent's resources. Prazos operated like a semi-feudal system and were most commonly found in the '''Zambezi River valley'''. These land grants tied emigrants to their settlements, and inland Mozambique was largely left to be administered by prazeiros, the grant holders. | |||
*'''Slavery''' in Mozambique pre-dated European-contact. African rulers and chiefs dealt in enslaved people, '''first with Arab Muslim traders, who sent the enslaved to Middle East Asia cities and plantations''', and later with '''Portuguese and other European traders'''. In a continuation of the trade, slaves were supplied by warring local African rulers, who raided enemy tribes and sold their captives to the prazeiros. | |||
*Continuing emigration from Portugal occurred at '''comparatively low levels''' until late in the nineteenth century. | |||
*While prazos were originally intended to be held solely by Portuguese colonists, through intermarriage and the relative isolation of prazeiros from ongoing Portuguese influences, the '''prazos became African-Portuguese or African-Indian.''' | |||
==Emigration From Mozambique== | ==Emigration From Mozambique== | ||