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| Author(s): |
Rafael da Cunha Scheffer
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2012-08-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes;
Jefferson Cano;
Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian;
Regina Célia Lima Chavier;
José Flávio Motta
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| Advisor: | Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes |
| Abstract | |
Analyzing the issue of slave labor in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, many historians have pointed out the importance of internal slave trade for the end of slavery in those provinces. This thesis aims to give depth to this topic, analyzing the slave market in several southern cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Investigating local and interprovincial trade, I try to calculate its volume and forms of operation, its impact on the captive population of these provinces and their connections to a city that import labor in Southeast, Campinas. I search traders involved in this business, the way they acted in this market, investigating some slave traders experiences and the building of business networks. For this work, I developed series with different sources. Notarial records of purchase and sale of captives and documents that authorize the negotiation of these workers were analyzed for all cities selected for study. In addition, announcements of slave sales, taxes and other official sources were used to elucidate the issues raised. Finally, judicial sources were explored to seek additional information on those involved in this trade and its practices. With this research, I realized how the slave market of these cities was linked to the national slave market. The purchase of slaves in the southern provinces of Brazil for resale in the Southeast occurred steadily during the study period, reaching its height in the 1870s. Sent in small groups through regular lines of steam or paths by land, young southern workers arrived in large numbers to meet the demand for arms at Campinas region. Several merchants were involved in these transfers, mostly developed while other commercial activities. The volume of the slave trade of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul to Southeast locality was important for importing region, it was reflected in the slave society of southern Brazil, but its impact on these people do not seem to have been decisive enough to answer alone for the decline of slave labor in the region, necessitating the study of mortality and especially the freedom papers for understanding the end of slavery in the region (AU) | |