Em costas negras
Subtitle: uma história do tráfico atlântico de escravos entre a Africa e o Rio de Janeiro, séculos XVIII e XIX
By: Manolo Garcia Florentino.
Series: Prêmio Arquivo Nacional de Pesquisa
Publisher: Arquivo Nacional
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: por
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Slave-trade -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 18th century.; Slave-trade -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century.; Slave-trade -- Africa, West -- History -- 18th century.; Slave-trade -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century.
Description: "Detailed treatment of the Africa-Rio de Janeiro slave trade from the 1790s-1830s, based on extensive archival research in Brazil. The trade was 'the most important sector of endogenous [capital] accumulation in the colony,' and the traders were the empresarial elites of the local socioeconomic hierarchy. Includes extensive quantitative material"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-243).
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidade Federal Fluminense, 1991.