The Nossa Senhora Da Nazare Parish Death Certificates: New Light on the Social and Religious Landscapes of a Slave Port City (Luanda, Angola)
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Abstract
My talk explores slave death certificates produced at the Nossa Senhora da Nazare parish in Luanda to understand the social and religious dynamic of Luanda between 1795 and 1816. The city of Luanda was deeply involved in the transatlantic slave trade, providing approximately one quarter of the captives taken across the Atlantic to the Americas. It hosted an extensive bureaucratic apparatus, in addition to a significant presence of religious institutions, including several churches and convents. The Nossa Senhora da Nazare parish slave death certificates are significant because they provide crucial information about the structure of the slave trade and about Africans victimized by the slave trade. In addition to registering names of the slave owners and the ships that would have taken enslaved Africans to the Americas, they shed light on names of slaves and causes of their deaths. They sometimes also registered names of Brazil-based merchants who acquired slaves in Luanda, providing invaluable information about the transatlantic networks fueling the Angolan trade in the late eighteenth century. Apart from discussing the nature of the slave trade, my talk will use these records to analyze the importance of Catholicism in Luanda and burial practices in the city at the time.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".