The trade in the living : the formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro ; translated by Gavin Adams and Luiz Felipe de Alencastro ; revised by Michael Wolfers and Dale Tomich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alencastro, Luiz Felipe de, author.

Contributor:

Adams, Gavin (Translator), translator.

Alencastro, Luiz Felipe de, translator.

Wolfers, Michael, 1938-2014, editor.

Tomich, Dale, editor.

Series:

Fernand Braudel Center studies in historical social science

Standardized Title:

Trato dos viventes. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Brazil--History--16th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--Brazil--History--17th century.

Slavery--Angola--History--16th century.

Slavery--Angola--History--17th century.

History.

International relations.

Brazil--Foreign relations--Angola.

Brazil.

Angola--Foreign relations--Brazil.

Angola.

Brazil--History--16th century.

Brazil--History--17th century.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 606 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Summary:

The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the ?sad blood? of the ?black and unfortunate souls? imported from Angola. In The Trade in the Living, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro demonstrates how the African slave trade was an essential element in the South Atlantic and in the ongoing cohesion of Portuguese America, while at the same time the concrete interests of Brazilian colonists, dependent on Angolan slaves, were often violently asserted in Africa, to ensure men and commodities continued to move back and forth across the Atlantic. In exposing this intricate and complementary relationship between two non-European continents, de Alencastro has fashioned a new and challenging examination of colonial Brazil, one that moves beyond its relationship with Portugal to discover a darker, hidden history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Alencastro, Luiz Felipe de. Trade in the living.

ISBN:

9781438469294

1438469292

OCLC:

987437439