Slavery, family and godparents: The slave community in the process of illegality of the international slave trade (1831-1850)

Authors

  • Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira PPG História UNISINOS

Abstract

Whereas as a landmark chronological period between 1831 and 1850, which demarcated the process of permanent prohibition of international slave trade, the article addresses the slave community gestated in the provincial capital of Rio Grande de São Pedro. The goal is to merge several empirical sources, describing the density possible with the resident black population in this urban locus. Ecclesiastical, judicial, police and administrative documents will be addressed under a dual perspective (qualitative and quantitative), to thinking about social, family and ethnic-racial population of this cluster networks compulsorily installed in southern Brazil.

Keywords: slavery, slave community, international slave trade.

Author Biography

Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira, PPG História UNISINOS

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Published

2014-03-20

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2014): May/August

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