The trade in the living : the formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries /
The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the ?sad blood? of the ?black and unfortunate souls? imported from Angola. In The Trade in the Living, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro demonstrates h...
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Fernand Braudel Center studies in historical social science.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Presentation of the English Edition; Author's Preface to the American Edition; 1 The Apprenticeship of Colonization; The Colonists' and the Missionaries' Paths; The Metropolis's Options; The Aims of the Portuguese Slave Trade; The Slave Trade as an Instrument of Colonial Policy; Demand and Supply of African Slaves: What Is the "Primum Mobile?"; 2 Africans, "the Slaves from Guinea"; "Salvation's Way"; The Slaving Trade Winds; São Tomé-Laboratory of Tropical Slavery; The Santomese Mocambos and the Bahia's Indians
- Invasion and Evangelization in West Central Africa3 Lisbon, Slave-Trade Capital of the Western World; The Ibero-American Slave Market; The Portuguese Asientos and Angola; Captives and Slaves in the Ethiopic Ocean; Predators, Governors, and Bankers; From Asian Spice to the Atlantic Slave Trade; The Colonial Men and the Overseas Men; Plunder and Trade in Angola; Luanda, Rio de Janeiro, and the Río de La Plata; Intertropical Experiments; Agglutinating Good and Ancillary Good; 4 Amerindians, the "Slaves of the Land"; Amerindian Coerced Labor; The Trade in Amerindian Slaves
- Hindrances to the Trade in AmerindiansThe Microbial Unification of the World50; Doctors and Empiricists; African Slavery and the Plunder of Amazonia; The Uprooting of Captives in Africa and America; The Social Reproduction of Slaves; 5 Evangelization in One Colony; The Antislavery of the Holy Sacraments; Antislavery and Proslavery Thought in Times of Asientos; The Jesuit Theory of the Slave Trade; The Descimento of Indians and the Atlantic Traffic in Africans; The Bipolarity of Luso-Brasilic Slavery; 6 The War over the Slave Markets
- The African Slave-Trade Crisis and the Amerindian Slave-Trade CyclePeruleiros and Bandeirantes; Amerindian Captivity and Paulista Autonomism; The War for Africans; Nassau-Siegen: "Humanist Prince" and Slave Trader138; Colonial Planters versus European Shareholders; The Luso-Brasilico Counterattack in Angola; Luanda 1648: The Battle of the Ethiopic Ocean; The Luso-Brasilico Enslavers' Task Force; Who Retook Angola?; The Jesuits and Control of the Ethiopic Ocean; Rio De Janeiro-Buenos Aires, and Bahia-Benin; Consequences of the Palmares Wars; The Paulistas' Paradox
- Spatial Capacity and Social Control of Colonizationphoto gallery; 7 Brasílica Angola; Manioc in Slave-Ships and in African Fairs; Nzimbu, Zimbo, Jimbo; Portuguese, Angolista, and Brasílico in West Central Africa; The Brasilico Offensive in Angola and Congo; Salvador de Sá's Successors in Luanda; João Fernandes Vieira in Angola; The Marvelous Conversion of Queen Njinga; Schismatic Congo; Vidal De Negreiros and the Routing of Congo; Mbwila: The Tri-Continental Battle; Brasílico Maneuvers in the African Wars; Putsch in Luanda and Knives Drawn in Recife
