Abolition of the Slave Trade: Brazil

Here is the class powerpoint, which contains some further references on the slave trade to Brazil and its abolition.

Seminar Questions

• Why was the Brazilian slave trade abolished in 1850?
• What were the consequences for Brazilian slave society?

Readings: please choose TWO:

• Conrad, Robert E. World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil (Louisiana State University Press, 1986), Ch. 3, “Illegal Slave Trading, 1810-1831,” pp. 56-76, available here.
• Graden, Dale T. “Slave Resistance and the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Brazil in 1850.” História Unisinos (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil), 14:3 (Sept/Dec 2010)283-94.
• Chalhoub, Sidney. “The Politics of Disease Control: Yellow Fever and Race in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro.” Journal of Latin American Studies, 25:3 (Oct 1993):441-463. [should be easily available through articles search @ Library]

Further reading:

• Jeffrey Needell, “The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade in 1850: Historiography, Slave Agency and Statesmanship” Journal of Latin American Studies, 2001.
• Conrad, Robert E. The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, 1850-1888
• Dale Graden, Disease, Resistance and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba. Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
• Bethell, Leslie. The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Britain, Brazil and the Slave Trade Question, 1807-1869. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
• SEE ALSO: Beatriz Mamigonian and Jake Subryan Richards articles from week 8 session on Britain, which really connect the two weeks.

Further reading on the slave trade and Brazil in general:

• Ferreira, Roquinaldo. Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade. 2012.
• Walter Hawthorne, From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity and Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830. 2010.
• Mariana Candido, An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland. CUP, 2013
• Mariana Candido and Adam Jones, eds. African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability, and Mobility, 1660-1880. Boydell & Brewer, 2019
• Robert Conrad, ed, Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil [primary sources]
• The Biography of Mahomma Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America, eds Robin Law & Paul Lovejoy, 2001.
• Pierre Verger, Trade Relations between the Bight of Benin and Bahia, 17th to 19th Century, 1976.
• _______. Bahia and the West African Trade, 1549-1851. 1964. [and photographic collections, see Pierre Verger Foundation website]