Sob a lei do cão: o trabalho escravo nos principais ciclos econômicos da Amazônia

Abstract

This study proposes to investigate and understand better how the introduction of slave labor and its consequent exploration of colonialist mentality in the Amazon occurred, as well as the interrelationship between the political, religious and economic processes, since the end of the Iberian Union, in the context of the main economic cycles, such as the extraction of drugs from the hinterland, passing through the gold in the region of Guaporeana (now belonging to Rondônia) and, later, for the voracity of industrial capital in the two rubber cycles late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and finally during the decisive years of World War II (1942-1945).