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2 - “Hellish Nurseries”

Slave Smuggling, Child Trafficking, and Local Complicity in Nineteenth-Century Pernambuco

from Part I - Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Brodwyn Fischer
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Keila Grinberg
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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This chapter discusses how slave traffickers adapted to the new circumstances created by Brazil’s 1831 ban on the transatlantic slave trade. While the ban by no means prevented further slave trafficking, it did force significant changes. In Pernambuco, the fourth most important destination for enslaved Africans in the Americas, traders could still reap abundant profits if they were willing to use small ships, pack them with the compact bodies of children and adolescents, and forge active partnerships with the complicit plantation owners who controlled the coast, roads, and towns surrounding Brazil’s natural harbors. In encouraging these new and brutal economic logics, the 1831 ban deeply impacted both the social demographics of Pernambucan slavery and the political and economic networks that structured the province.

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The Boundaries of Freedom
Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil
, pp. 57 - 82
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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