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Mozambique Emigration and Immigration (view source)
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*Continuing emigration from Portugal occurred at '''comparatively low levels''' until late in the nineteenth century. | *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.''' | *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.''' | ||
*By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of Mozambique to large private companies controlled and financed mostly by British financiers. | |||
*Although '''slavery had been legally abolished in Mozambique''', at the end of the 19th century the Chartered companies enacted a '''forced labour policy and supplied cheap—often forced—African labour to the mines and plantations of the nearby British colonies and South Africa.''' | |||
==Emigration From Mozambique== | ==Emigration From Mozambique== | ||