Title: Em costas negras
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Slave-trade, History
Places: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, West Africa
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century
LC classification: HT1129.R53 F56 1995