For West Central Africa (Angola) in during the late 18th and early 19th
centuries, you will find consumption estimates in the last chapter of my
"Alcohol and Slaves: The Luso-Brazilian Alcohol Commerce at Mpinda,
Luanda, and Benguela during the Atlantic Slave Trade c. 1480-1830
and Its Impact on the Societies of West-Central Africa," Ph. D.
dissertation, UCLA, 1996, 499 pp.
Jose C. Curto
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