Slave Trade Abolition in Brazil
* What was the relationship between Brazil and Africa before 1850?
* What explanations have historians given for the ending of the Atlantic trade to Brazil in about 1850? Why did the law "stick" in 1850-1, but not in earlier attempts to abolish the trade?
* Why did slavery survive in Brazil after the trade ended in 1850?
Core reading: please read Mary Karasch and then choose at least 1 other:
Mary C Karasch, (1985) chapter 1, "The Nations of Rio"
Graden, Dale T. 鈥�Slave Resistance and the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Brazil in 1850.鈥� Hist贸ria Unisinos (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil), 14:3 (Sept/Dec 2010)283-94.
Jeffrey Needell, JLAS, 33:4 (2001): 681-711.
Richard Graham, "Another Middle Passage?" in Johnson, Walter, ed. The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005 (Chapter 13, pp. 291-324)
Further Reading:
Primary sources:
, eds. Robin Law and Paul Lovejoy, 2007. Several copies at library, being placed on short loan.
Robert Conrad, . Several copies at library; being placed on short loan.
Secondary sources:
Luis Felipe de Alencastro, , 2018
Roquinaldo Ferreira, (CUP, 2012)
Chalhoub, Sidney, 鈥淭he Politics of Disease Control: Yellow Fever and Race in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro.鈥� Journal of Latin American Studies, 25:3 (Oct 1993):441-463.
Slenes, Robert, chapter on the Brazilian internal trade in Johnson, ed. The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas.
Conrad, Robert E. World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Chapter 8: 鈥淎 New Forced Migration: The Interprovincial Slave Trade,鈥� pp 171-191
Yuko Miki, 鈥淔leeing into Slavery: The Insurgent Geographies of Brazilian Quilombolas (Maroons), 1880-1881.鈥� The Americas, 68:4 (April 2012): 495-528.
On Brazilian history generally, there are lots more useful materials on my second-year course page, "The Country of the Future: A History of Modern Brazil."