| Description |
xxviii, 515 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- List of Illustrations xiii -- Preface xv -- Acknowledgments xxvii -- Part I. "Men of Stone and of Iron": The African Slave Trade -- 1.1. The Beginnings of the Portuguese-African Slave Trade in the Fifteenth Century, as Described by the Chronicler Gomes Eannes de Azurara 5 -- 1.2. The Enslavement Process in the Portuguese Dominions of King Philip III of Spain in the Early Seventeenth Century 11 -- 1.3. A Portuguese Doctor Describes the Suffering of Black Slaves in Africa and on the Atlantic Voyage (1793) 15 -- 1.4. A Young Black Man Tells of His Enslavement in Africa and Shipment to Brazil about the Middle of the Nineteenth Century 23 -- 1.5. An Ex-Slavetrader's Account of the Enslavement Process in Africa and the Illegal Traffic to Brazil (1848-1849) 28 -- 1.6. "It Was the Same as Pigs in a Sty": A Young African's Account of Life on a Slave Ship (1849) 37 -- 1.7. A Slave Revolt at Sea and Brutal Reprisals (1845) 39 -- 1.8. A British Physician Describes the State of Africans upon Their Arrival in Brazil (1841-1843) 43 -- 1.9. A British Clergyman's Impressions of the Valongo Slave Market in Rio de Janeiro (1828) 48 -- Part II. "A Hell for Blacks": Slavery in Rural Brazil -- 2.1. An Italian Jesuit Advises Sugar Planters on the Treatment of Their Slaves (1711) 55 -- 2.2. A Royal Decree on the Feeding of Slaves and Their Days Off (1701) 60 -- 2.3. "I Doubt that the Moors Are So Cruel to Their Slaves": The Feeding of Slaves in Late Colonial Bahia 61 -- 2.4. The Masters and the Slaves: A Frenchman's Account of Society in Rural Pernambuco Early in the Nineteenth Century 63 -- 2.5. "The African Man Transformed into the American Beast": Slavery in Rural Pernambuco in the 1840s 71 -- 2.6. Practical Advice on the Management of Plantation Slaves (1847) 77 -- 2.7. Slave Life on a Plantation in the Province of Rio de Janeiro in the Late Nineteenth Century 79 -- 2.8. A Medical Report on Slaves on Five Coffee Plantations in the Province of Rio de Janeiro (1853) 86 -- 2.9. "There Are Plantations Where the Slaves Are Numb with Hunger": A Medical Thesis on Plantation Diseases and Their Causes (1847) 91 -- 2.10. The Annual Work Routine on Plantations in Maranhao in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 96 -- 2.11. A Brazilian Senator Comments on the High Mortality among Rural Slave Children in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 99 -- 2.12. A Bahian Sugar Planter Registers His Slaves (1872) 100 -- Part III. Slave Life in Cities and at the Mines -- 3.1. Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro as Seen through Newspaper Advertisements (1821) 111 -- 3.2. A North American Describes Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro (1846) 115 -- 3.3. A Royal Navy Surgeon Discusses the Black Coffee Carriers of Rio de Janeiro (1848) 124 -- 3.4. The Sedan Chair and the Hammock: Urban Transportation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 126 -- 3.5. Slave Prostitutes in the Brazilian Capital (1871) 129 -- 3.6. Newspaper Advertisements for Black Wet Nurses (1821-1854) 133 -- 3.7. A French Doctor with Twelve Years of Medical Experience in Brazil Advises Mothers on Choosing a Black Wet Nurse (1843) 135 -- 3.8. Was the Black Wet Nurse a Transmitter of Disease? A Medical Debate in Rio de Janeiro (1846) 137 -- 3.9. The Black Wet Nurse: A Status Symbol (1863) 139 -- 3.10. Slave Workers at the Diamond Washings of Tejuco, Minas Gerais, in the Early Nineteenth Century 140 -- 3.11. Black Miners at a British-Owned Gold Mine in the 1860s 143 -- 3.12. "Common Graves": How |
| Notes |
Originally published: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 1984 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [494]-498) |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- Brazil -- History -- Sources.
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Slave trade -- Brazil -- History -- Sources.
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Slavery -- Brazil -- History -- Sources.
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Slaves -- Emancipation -- Brazil -- History -- Sources.
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| LC no. |
93038702 |
| ISBN |
0271013214 |
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