The Internal Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
A Study of Slave Importations into Rio de Janeiro in 1852
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2824541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Herbert S Kein (0000-0002-2239-2784, corresponding author), Herbert S Klein |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 567 |
| Publication date | 1971-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2512051 |
| OpenAlex | W4237631171 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
WSC WITH THE TERMINATION of the Atlantic slave trade to Brazil after 1850, the internal slave trade within the Brazilian Empire increased dramatically. Though contemporaries were aware of the development and later historians have commented on it, the dimensions and characteristics of the trade have not been fully explored.2 Due to the scarcity of published data, both quantitative and qualitative, historians have been unable to assess the trade's dynamics in terms of the types of slaves shipped, their place of origin, their occupations, or the impact on the exporting and importing zones. It is the aim of this study, which is based on an analysis of manuscript port registrations for the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1852, to deal with these and several other aspects of this important trade. Before analyzing this material, some general discussion of the nature of the trade is necessary. Clearly internal migration of slaves, even seaborne inter-regional movement, was not a new phenomenon in 1850. A steady, widespread inter-provincial trade had gone on while the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Also an important part of the internal trade, both before and after 1850, was quite local, involving the land transfer of slaves within provincial borders, or between contiguous provinces. However, long-distance seaborne trade, the concern of this study, developed most fully after the Atlantic slave trade was terminated. While it still had elements of intraregional movement, especially among the northeastern ports, it was primarily a trade in slaves from northeastern and southern ports to the central coffee zones of Brazil
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2025 (51) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |