About the Sailors of History: The African Duarte José Martins da Costa and the Atlantic Slave Trade “Petty Network” (Rio de Janeiro – Angola – Recife – Benin, 19th Century)

This article presents fragments of the life of Duarte José Martins da Costa, a sailor whose experiences of enslavement and freedom were at the crossroads of the slave trade between West and Central-West Africa and Brazil. Through his trajectory, we examine the Atlantic connections between small busi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Costa, Valéria, Gomes, Flávio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
Repositorio:Afro-Ásia (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/44960
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/44960
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Africanos
Libertos
Marinheiros
Tráfico atlântico de escravos
Escravidão
Africans
Freed men
Sailors
Atlantic slave trade
Slavery
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Sumario:This article presents fragments of the life of Duarte José Martins da Costa, a sailor whose experiences of enslavement and freedom were at the crossroads of the slave trade between West and Central-West Africa and Brazil. Through his trajectory, we examine the Atlantic connections between small businesses, seafarers, captive brokers; freed, enslaved, and free people; Europeans, Americans, Africans; whites, blacks, and “mixed race” people who constituted what we call the “small network” of the slave trade and who were also responsible for its breadth illegal in nineteenth-century Brazil.