## Section III: Chapter 8  
Vanessa S. OLIVEIRA earned a Ph.D. in history from York University and was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Toronto before joining RMC (Royal Military College of Canada) as a specialist in African history. She teaches courses on early and modern Africa, European colonialism and women, gender and sexualities. Her book Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in January 2021.