A presente pesquisa tem como principal objeto a escravidão em Pelotas na segunda metade do século XIX. Procurou-se entender como essa instituição se sustentou ao longo dos últimos 35 anos de sua existência, bem como quais foram as modificações ocorridas em decorrência de duas leis abolicionistas, a Lei Eusébio de Queirós e a Lei do Ventre Livre. Além disso, procurou-se entender a escravidão na localidade de forma global, quais eram as características dos plantéis escravos, seu perfil demográfico, como se montaram e se sustentaram, fugindo da exclusividade da charqueada, mas procurando incorporar toda a sociedade escravista pelotense. O uso de fontes de caráter serial e de metodologias do estudo de posse escrava e demografia histórica tornaram possível a verificação de um quadro bem complexo para escravidão local no período estudado. Longe de ser um fornecedor em potencial de escravos para as regiões produtoras de café após o encerramento do tráfico transatlântico, Pelotas demonstrou um esforço para a manutenção da escravidão até praticamente seu fim oficial na década de 1880. / The present investigation has as main object the slavery in Pelotas in the second half of the nineteenth century. We sought to understand how this institution was maintained over the last 35 years of its existence, and what were the changes occurring as a result of two abolitionists laws, the Eusebio de Queiroz Law and the Law of Free Womb. In addition, we sought to understand slavery in the locality as a whole, what were the characteristics of slaves groups, their demographic profile, hou it was assembled and maintained, fleeing of the exclusiveness of the charque production, but looking to incorporate all the Pelotas slavery society. The use of serial sources and the slave ownership and historical demography methodologies made it possible to scan a very complex picture for local slavery in the studied period. Far from being a potential supplier of slaves to the coffee growing regions after the close of the transatlantic slave trade, Pelotas showed an effort to maintain slavery until almost its official end in the 1880s.

L’étude des relations interculturelles entre l’Afrique noire et le Brésil dans le cadre de la traite négrière transatlantique, nous a amené à nous intéresser à la singulière odyssée des Retornados Aguda du Bénin. Ce sont des esclaves émancipés revenus majoritairement de Bahia au lendemain de la révolte Malè (1835), dans les aires culturelles et géographiques de leurs ancêtres, celles de la Côte des Esclaves. Face au défi de réintégration dans une société qui les avait exclus au moins un siècle plutôt, ces "hommes nouveaux" ont développé d’ingénieux mécanismes de résistance et d’affirmation de soi, pour construire une aristocratie aux prestiges remarquables aux côtés des négriers portugais, brésiliens, anglais, français, hollandais, et danois installés sur cette côte de l’Afrique pour le commerce des esclaves. C’est à ce titre, et comme des éducateurs sociaux qu’ils ont éminemment contribué à la transformation socio-culturelle, économique et politique des aires d’accueil allant jusqu’à une profonde modification des us et coutumes locaux. Dans cette même logique, ils ont formé la première élite intellectuelle au service de la colonisation française qu’ils ont combattue par la suite jusqu’à la l’indépendance du Dahomey. Cette étude met en lumière les permanences et les mutations successives des vestiges de l’héritage socio-culturel, linguistique, politique et religieux des Aguda qui se poursuivent et se ressentent dans la société béninoise contemporaine. Les racines de ces apports afrobrésiliens sont si profondément enfouies dans les usages des Béninois contemporains au point que certains ont du mal à imaginer que des pratiques de leur quotidien qu’ils se sont appropriées et remodelées à leur goût au fil de générations, sont venues de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique. / In the quest of a study of the intercultural relations between sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, we come to investigate on the particular odyssey of the Retornees Aguda in Benin. They are formers are slavers coming back home mainly from Bahia, following the Malè revolt (1835), in their former cultural and geographic area where their ancestors have been caught and sold as slaves, the Slave Coast. Meeting the challenge of their reintegration in a community where their ancestors were expelled, those “new people” used some resourceful resistant mechanisms, and a powerful self-assertion to build a distinguish aristocratic class together with the Portuguese, the Brazilian, the English, the French, the Danish and the Dutch slavers settled on that coast many years ago.It is on the crest of that high position in the society that they greatly took part in the socio-economic and cultural changes in those welcoming areas up to deep transfer in local habits and customs. In so doing, they have been the first intellectual elite serving the French colonial administration that they later opposed till the independence of the Dahomey colony. This survey brings into light the continuities as well as the remarkable changes on the remnants of the Aguda’s sociocultural, linguistic, politic and religious legacy which are deeply rooted in Beninese’s everyday life that some of them hardly guess that some daily usages come from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

<p>This master's essay is about seasonality in Bristols slave trade until the American Revolution 1776. The essay uses the Voyages database as the primary material. The essay's method is to study monthly distribution at different points of the slave trade – the departure from Bristol and the arrival at the American destination. The seasonality of slave purchases in Africa is primarly studied through the monthly distribution of departures from Bristol for a specific region in Africa. This methodological choice is based on the lack of coverage of African arrival dates. The theoretical groundwork in the essay is foremost based on Henri Lefebvre's concept of rhytm analysis. The results of the essay show that there usually was some seasonality in the different parts of Bristol's slave trade. The essay tries to relate this seasonality with possible explanations, like the need of provisions, trade goods, harvest cycles in Africa and America, though the essay doesn't have any pretensions of proving actual causal relations, just that the seasonality of the slave trade coincided with other seasonal cycles.</p>

This master's essay is about seasonality in Bristols slave trade until the American Revolution 1776. The essay uses the Voyages database as the primary material. The essay's method is to study monthly distribution at different points of the slave trade – the departure from Bristol and the arrival at the American destination. The seasonality of slave purchases in Africa is primarly studied through the monthly distribution of departures from Bristol for a specific region in Africa. This methodological choice is based on the lack of coverage of African arrival dates. The theoretical groundwork in the essay is foremost based on Henri Lefebvre's concept of rhytm analysis. The results of the essay show that there usually was some seasonality in the different parts of Bristol's slave trade. The essay tries to relate this seasonality with possible explanations, like the need of provisions, trade goods, harvest cycles in Africa and America, though the essay doesn't have any pretensions of proving actual causal relations, just that the seasonality of the slave trade coincided with other seasonal cycles.

The basis of this thesis has been constructed from the following sources: 1) The British Sessional Papers (1868-1891 on Readex Cards). The Slave Trade Reports throughout this period also include valuable commercial material and political correspondance. The vast amounts of material on the slave trade or under slave trade headings has resulted in a tendency to distort the importance of Britain's anti-slave trade policy in this region. [...]

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No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1973.

Issued also as Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University. / Bibliography: p. 177-181.

Issued also as Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University. / Bibliography: p. 177-181.

O objetivo desta investigação é analisar o tráfico de escravos na Capitania do Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, na passagem do século XVIII para o XIX. Duas questões básicas orientaram nossa investigação: a análise das características demográficas dos escravos traficados (sexo, naturalidade, condição e faixa etária) e a caracterização da dinâmica de funcionamento do circuito mercantil (composição dos envios, concentração do tráfico e traficantes envolvidos). Verificou-se que, embora se realizasse apenas na sua etapa interna, o tráfico de escravos da capitania apresentava características semelhantes àquelas observadas nas regiões que participavam diretamente do tráfico atlântico de escravos. Quanto ao perfil demográfico, constatou-se o predomínio dos escravos africanos e uma elevada razão de masculinidade, tanto entre os africanos quanto entre os crioulos.Por outro lado, observou-se que aproximadamente 1/3 dos escravos despachados para o Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, entre 1788-1802, tinham entre 10 e 14 anos. No que diz respeito ao circuito mercantil, concluiu-se que o comércio se dava através de pequenos envios e era realizado por um grande número de “traficantes eventuais”. Estes pequenos comerciantes foram responsáveis pela comercialização de uma parcela importante do total de escravos e pela maior parte dos envios realizados e, deste modo, foram indispensáveis para o funcionamento do mercado negreiro sul-rio-grandense. As principais fontes utilizadas foram as guias de transporte de escravos emitidas pela Provedoria da Fazenda Real, os despachos e passaporte de escravos emitidos pela Polícia da Corte e o Livro de Sisas da Vila do Rio Grande. / The objective of this investigation is to analyze the slave trade in Capitania do Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, during the passage from the 18th to the 19th century. Two basic subjects guided our investigation: the analysis of the demographic characteristics of traded slaves (sex, naturalness, condition and age) and the characterization of the trading circuit (composition of shipments, trade concentration and traders engaged). It was noticed that, although it took place only internally, the slave trade in capitania presented characteristics similar to the ones observed in the regions which participated directly in the Atlantic slave trade. As to the demographic profile, it was verified a predominance of african slaves and a high percentage of males, both among africans and crioulos. On the other hand, it was observed that approximately 1/3 of the slaves sent to Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, between 1788-1802, was between 10 and 14 years old. Concerning the trading circuit, it was concluded that the slave trade took place through small shipments and was accomplished by a high number of “eventual traders”.These little traders were responsible for the commercialization of the majority of the slaves and of the shipments. This way, they became indispensable to the success of the slave trade in Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul. The main sources used were the documents of slaves transportation issued by the Provedoria da Real Fazenda; the dispatching and passports of slaves issued by the Polícia da Corte and the Livro de Sisas da Vila do Rio Grande.