Entre costas brasílicas: o tráfico interno de escravos em direitura a Amazônia, c.1778-c.1830

Abstract

After the end of the monopoly drilled by the so-called pombalina company, strategically designed for the Amazon during the second half of the eighteenth century, emerge an internal slave trade by sea in directness to these stops. This slave trade was seen by royal authorities as a danger to the survival of their businesses and agriculture. On the other hand, there were many merchants and residents of the northern area of the colony and province that received the willingly African labor coming from Brazilian coastal areas. In this dissertation, from that internal trafficking of slaves, I realize the great importance of this slave trade to Amazon looking for reflect on their mechanisms of functioning and reproduction.