A extinção da companhia de comércio e o tráfico de africanos para o estado do Grão Pará e Rio Negro (1777 – 1815)

Abstract

Our purpose was to study the trafficking of Africans to the State of the Grand-Pará and Rio Negro in the period 1777 to 1815. To achieve our objectives, we use the information contained in the database of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (BDCTE), the documentation compiled by Public Archives of Para Anaíza Vergolino Figueiredo and Napoleon in the book “A presença Africana na Amazônia Colonial: uma notícia histórica”, crossed with the documentation of Project Rescue - AHU also consult the bibliography. In the first chapter we developed an appreciation of historiography to dentify the same perception about the trafficking of Africans to the Grand-Pará, with questioning and articulating the main arguments on the issue, moreover, identified the production and the prospects of historiography that treats on trafficking in the state of Maranhão. Then we try to point out the factors which enabled the continuation of trade in slaves from Africa, being phased out commercial monopoly. We discuss some aspects of political and economic state experienced by the Grand Para. In this scenario it was possible to identify the impacts of the end of the exclusive trade, through the reactions of residents and administrators of Grand Para, expressed in the speeches made by them. At the end we pause to identify and dynamic organization of the traffic, the quantitative aspects of it. Furthermore, we observed that very little was said by the historiography on those responsible for this trade to continue after CCGPM therefore identify who the "businessmen" who financed the trade to the state in question, highlighting the participation of residents Grand Para, as custeadores this trade.