The Brazilian Internal Slave Trade, 1850–1888
The Brazilian Internal Slave Trade, 1850–1888
Regional Economies, Slave Experience, and the Politics of a Peculiar Market
This chapter defines “internal slave trade” as the practice of selling people within the society where they reside. For analytical purposes, however, the term is more usefully reserved for a system of commerce in human beings that is relatively autonomous—with primarily endogenous determinants of prices and other characteristics—and that integrates local buyers and sellers within a region, colony, or nation, or even within an area that overlaps political boundaries, into a common market. The paradigm, of course, is the commerce in bondspeople in the American South after the abolition of the African slave trade to the United States in 1807. In Brazil, a similar mercantile system dealing in forced labor fully emerged only with the end of the African traffic to that country in 1850.
Keywords: internal slave trade, selling people, system of commerce, autonomous, common market, bondspeople, African slave trade, forced labor
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