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The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (SUNY Series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science) by Luiz Felipe de Alencastro; Gavin Adams, (Translator); Michael Wolfers; Dale W Tomich is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the "sad blood" of the "black and unfortunate souls" imported from Angola. In <i>The Trade in the Living</i>, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro demonstrates how the African slave trade was an essential element in the South Atlantic and in the ongoing cohesion of Portuguese America, while at the same time the concrete interests of Brazilian colonists

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Author
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro; Gavin Adams, (Translator); Michael Wolfers; Dale W Tomich
Publisher
SUNY Press, State University of New York Press
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9781438469317
Category
history
Subjects
History, Sociology, Social Science
Updated
2026-03-25

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