Slave trade connections: slave smugglers in the south Atlantic (Río de la Plata, 1730-1752)
The article tries to show how the Portuguese built their hegemony in the slave smuggling business to the Rio de la Plata during the first half of the 18th century. In the decade of 1730 a new conjuncture begins, marked by changes in the political context and the new Anglo-Spanish war that interrupte...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Anos 90 (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/70621 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/70621 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Tráfico de escravos Asiento Contrabandistas Atlântico Sul Colônia do Sacramento contrabando de escravos Slave trade Smugglers South Atlantic Colonia do Sacramento |
| Sumario: | The article tries to show how the Portuguese built their hegemony in the slave smuggling business to the Rio de la Plata during the first half of the 18th century. In the decade of 1730 a new conjuncture begins, marked by changes in the political context and the new Anglo-Spanish war that interrupted the operations of the South Sea Company on the River Plate. This paved the way for the predominance of the Portuguese merchants, with Luso-Brazilian traffickers gradually taking over the slave trade by establishing the necessary Atlantic connections to form a network of agents involved in the illicit trade of captives. Trans-imperial smuggling of slaves connected the Luso-Brazilian traffickers operating in the Colonia do Sacramento to the two main slave ports of Portuguese America (Rio de Janeiro and Salvador). |
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