2015-09-222015-09-222011-12CHAMBOULEYRON, Rafael Ivan et al. 'Formidável contágio': epidemias, trabalho e recrutamento na Amazônia colonial (1660-1750). História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, v. 18, n. 4, p. 987-1004, dez. 2011. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702011000400002&lng=pt&nrm=iso>. Acesso em: 22 set. 2015. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702011000400002>.0104-5970https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/6901The text analyzes the extent to which smallpox and measles epidemics provoked transformations in the ways in which workforces were acquired and used in colonial Amazonia from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century, with an increase in slave raids on the indigenous population and the attempt to organize a trade route in African slaves to the region. It also explores how indigenous mortality rates at the end of the seventeenth century led to a concern with the region's defence and prompted the recruitment of soldiers from the Madeira islands.porAcesso AbertoDoenças transmissíveisEpidemiaSaúde públicaSarampoVaríolaForça de trabalhoRecrutatamentoHistória - Séc. XVII - XVIIIPará - EstadoMaranhão - EstadoAmazônia brasileiraArtigo de Periódico