| The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Contributor(s): de Alencastro, Luiz Felipe (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438469306 ISBN-13: 9781438469300 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $38.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - History | Latin America - South America |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| Series: Suny Series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical So |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (2.00 lbs) 642 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Ant nio 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 how the African slave trade was an essential element in the South Atlantic and in the ongoing cohesion of Portuguese America, while at the same time the concrete interests of Brazilian colonists, dependent on Angolan slaves, were often violently asserted in Africa, to ensure men and commodities continued to move back and forth across the Atlantic. In exposing this intricate and complementary relationship between two non-European continents, de Alencastro has fashioned a new and challenging examination of colonial Brazil, one that moves beyond its relationship with Portugal to discover a darker, hidden history. |