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for 14 months. When representative of the
Company arrived the 'Republic of Cacheu' refused to let them land, demanding control over trade and direct communication with the king. A triumvirate, which included Bibiana's brother, ruled the town "in the name of the people", meaning the Afro-Portuguese
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into the new stockade in 1591 in an attempt to avoid the control of the local government. The Papels unsuccessfully stormed the fort before an agreement was reached allowing cohabitation. The fort did not have a secure water supply, however, and the locals used their control over water to pressure
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endeavoured to ensure that duties on all slaves exported were paid. It was also a center of boat-building, with most of the artisans being
African. The lancados, Papels, and other European traders all regularly violated this supposed monopoly. To bolster these attempts, in 1676 the Portuguese
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The condition of the garrison deteriorated progressively from the latter part of the 17th century up through the 19th. In 1878, a reinforced
Portuguese force successfully attacked Cacanda in retaliation for the earlier assassination of the captain-major of Cacheu, the first of a series of
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In 1598 a resident priest was appointed, and in 1605 the settlement was offered a municipal charter by the
Portuguese crown. At this time the settlement had around 1500 inhabitants, of whom 500 were white. A new fort, which still stands today, was built of stone in the 1640s.
349:. For more history, one can also visit the Cacheu Memorial of Slavery & Black Traffic memorial museum (Memorial da Escravatura e Tráfico Negreiro de Cacheu). Other attractions in the town include the
228:. Cacheu developed a European/Afro-European population from the late sixteenth century through informal settlement of Cape Verdian and Portuguese traders, adventurers and outcasts (
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Cacheu was one of the earliest
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raided the settlement. Due to such threats and a period of social conflict with their hosts the
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Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
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