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The Atlantic Slave Trade to Maranhão, 1680–1846: Volume, Routes and Organisation

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History of Colonial Brazil Colonialism, slavery, and trade Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

Abstract

Maranhão has the best documented slave trade in all Portuguese America. However, it is one of the least studied branches of the Atlantic slave trade. This article provides an assessment of the volume, routes and organisation of the slave trade to Maranhão, in northern Brazil. It shows that, although small in scale, the slave trade to Maranhão displayed important features concerning the routes and organisation of the Atlantic slave trade. Finally, because of the late European occupation and relative isolation, the slave trade to Maranhão offers ideal conditions for observing the rise and fall of African slavery in the New World.

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1970The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census.2001Black Rice 2001The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Reassessment 2006Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic 1970The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade 2001Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas 2000The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM 2001The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas

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