Advisor: Daniel Domingues da Silva

Gabriel Miguel is a Ph.D. student interested in the history of the slave trade in West Central Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries. He earned his B.A. in 2018 and his M.S. in 2021, both in the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Brazil. In his M.S., his Thesis analyzed the application of Portuguese law to the mechanisms of enslavement in the hinterland of Angola in the second half of the 18th century to defend the existence of an African agency in the face of the Iberian legal apparatus. In addition to African agency and history of law, Gabriel`s interests include the African internal slave trade and African political history, intersecting with anthropological theory.