scholarly journals Liberated Africans, Slaves, and Convict Labor in the Construction of Rio de Janeiro's Casa de Correção: Atlantic Labor Regimes and Confinement in Brazil's Port City

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (S27) ◽  
pp. 173-204
Author(s):  
Martine Jean
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Port City ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Convict Labor ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
Labor Regimes

AbstractFrom 1834 to 1850, Latin America's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção in Rio de Janeiro, was a construction site where slaves, “liberated Africans”, convicts, and unfree workers interacted daily, forged identities, and deployed resistance strategies against the pressures of confinement and the demands of Brazil's eclectic labor regimes. This article examines the utilization of this motley crew of workers, the interactions among “liberated Africans”, slaves, and convict laborers, and the government's intervention between 1848 and 1850 to restrict slave labor at the prison in favor of free waged workers. It asserts that the abolition of the slave trade in 1850 and the subsequent inauguration of the penitentiary augured profound changes in Rio's labor landscape, from a predominantly unfree to a free wage labor force.

Shipping Patterns and Mortality in the African Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1825-1830.

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (59) ◽  
pp. 381-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert S. Klein ◽  
Stanley L. Engerman
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
African Slave

The Politics of Reproduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Paugh
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Caribbean Women ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Atlantic Slave Trade

This book examines the history and politics of childbearing in the British Empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. British politicians became increasingly concerned to promote motherhood among Afro-Caribbean women during the era of abolitionism. These politicians hoped that a homegrown labor force would allow for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade without any disruption to the pace of labor on Caribbean plantations. The plans for reform generated by British politicians were shaped by their ideas about race, medicine, demography, and religion, and so the book explores these fields of comprehension as they related to reproductive reform. While making a broad survey of the politics of reproduction in Atlantic world, the book also focuses in on the story of a Barbadian midwife and three generations of her family. The experiences of Doll and her female kin illustrate how the campaign to promote fertility affected Afro-Caribbean women, and also how they were able to carve out room to maneuver within the constraints of life in a Caribbean slave society.

Crime Concealment as an Element of the Method of Committing Slave Trade and Slave Labor Use

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-237
Author(s):  
Alexander N. Kalyuzhnyi ◽  
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Nikolai G. Shurukhnov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Beauty Contests ◽  
Psychological Pressure ◽  
Illegal Activities ◽  
Travel Abroad

The authors examine the patterns of concealment of illegal activities in human trafficking and slave labor use, as well as patterns of the activities of law enforcement agencies in the disclosure and investigation of the analyzed crimes. The aim of the article is to substantiate the data on the concealment of the investigated crimes for their subsequent use in the disclosure and investigation of the analyzed illegal activity. In the research, the authors used legal, sociological and other methods of scientific knowledge: logical, comparative legal, statistical, modeling, and a number of others. The authors relied on the materials of 130 criminal cases on encroachments on human trafficking and slave labor use, the results of interviewing 320 law enforcement officers, scientific developments of other researchers on the issue under consideration, as well as statistical data from the Main International and Analytical Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The study of the materials of criminal cases shows that the basis for the disclosure and investigation of perpetrators' criminal activities should be based on the regularities of the method of concealing the crimes under consideration reflected in the following typical forms: (1) concealment of the fact and traces of preparation for committing a crime: a) placing veiled ads with offers of employment, training, marriage services in the media, social networks, leaflets, etc.; b) holding fake “beauty contests”, “draw games”, and similar events, participants of which are offered work or study abroad; c) disseminating deliberately false information in order to attract future victims of slave trade and illegal exploitation in certain social groups: prostitutes, drug addicts, unemployed, homeless people, etc.; d) conspiring in finding accomplices, means of communication, places of detention of victims, means of physical and psychological pressure on the victim; (2) conspiracy of the direct commission of a crime: a) disguising it as legitimate; b) falsifying documents that allow victims to travel abroad; c) concealing places of detention of victims and organizing victim safe-keeping; d) seizing identity documents from victims; e) using SIM cards registered to unauthorized persons, f) veiled advertising of activities to search for consumers of sexual and other services; (3) disguise or destruction of traces of the committed crime: destruction of clothing and belongings of the victim, erasing the traces left. Thus, in the course of the analysis of the literature and criminal case materials on human trafficking and slave labor use, forensically significant data on the concealment of the investigated crimes were substantiated; the knowledge of these data should be used in the course of the disclosure and investigation of such crimes.

As crianças na dinâmica do tráfico interno de escravos a partir da cidade do Rio de Janeiro (1809-1834)

Afro-Ásia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Valencia Villa ◽  
Manolo Florentino
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Traffic Patterns ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Functional Dynamics ◽  
Police Records

<p>O estudo do paulatino estrangulamento do tráfico internacional de escravos para o Brasil permitiu detectar a grande elasticidade demográfica do comércio atlântico e de seus padrões expressos no tráfico interno, tomado como parte de um único mercado. Destacamos na presente investigação a existência de um mercado interno fortemente competitivo; concentrado embora não monopolístico; portador de uma racionalidade intrínseca, pois suas oscilações denotavam a presença de agentes econômicos capazes de realizar previsões a curto e médio prazo; e cujas taxas de lucratividade repousavam na multiplicação do número de empresas, e não no aumento da quantidade de escravos transportados por cada uma delas. As crianças africanas e crioulas revelaram-se de grande importância diante da conjuntura de ataque ao tráfico internacional, por meio do trânsito em geral solitário de meninos e de meninas, descortinando a busca da reprodução da <em>plantation</em> via potencial produtivo e reprodutivo a médio e curto prazo. Dificilmente nos será dado conhecer registros tão completos para o estudo do tráfico interno de escravos como os assentamentos gerados pela Seção de Passaportes da Intendência Geral de Polícia. Espera-se que estudos comparativos com outras regiões da América permitam compreender melhor a dinâmica de funcionamento e a lógica empresarial do tráfico interno brasileiro, não apenas ao longo das primeiras décadas do século XIX, mas em especial em períodos anteriores.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong><strong> </strong>Rio de Janeiro - tráfico interno de escravos - crianças escravizadas.<strong></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><em>Abstract: </em></strong></p><p><em>Studying the gradual strangulation of international slave trade coming to Brazil reveals the great demographic elasticity of Atlantic commerce, along with internal traffic patterns expressed in this singular Atlantic market. This paper highlights the existence of a strongly competitive internal market that was concentrated, but not monopolistic. The presence of economic agents capable of making short and medium-term forecasts in an oscillating market denotes an intrinsic rationality. Profitability rested on multiplying the number of trading companies, not on increasing the number of slaves transported by each company. Additionally, an international traffic under attack for the solitary transit of African and Creole children reveals the need for Brazilian plantations to reproduce labor via biological and economic means in both the medium and short-terms. Although police records of internal slave traffic in regional settlements are incomplete, we expect comparative studies with other regions of the Americas to result in a better understanding of the functional dynamics and entrepreneurial logics of Brazil’s internal slave traffic during the colonial era and after independence.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>Rio de Janeiro - internal slave trade - slave children.</em><strong><em></em></strong></p>

ENTRE VIENA E VERONA: uma estratégia para os dois mundos (1815-1822)

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
WILMA PERES COSTA
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
New World ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
Nodal Points ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Constitutional Monarchy

O artigo propõe-se a estudar alguns pontos nodais da chamada ”Era dos Congressos” (1815-1822) para pensar o modo como se reconfiguraram, naquele perá­odo, as relações entre o Velho e o Novo Mundo. Especial atenção é dada á  peculiaridade vivida pela América Portuguesa, em razão da presença da Corte no Rio de Janeiro, o que possibilitava alternativas polá­ticas distintas da América Espanhola. No que se refere ao Congresso de Verona, atribuá­mos especial atenção á s negociações referentes ao tráfico negreiro e á  consolidação da monarquia constitucional.Palavras-chave: Congresso de Viena. Congresso de Verona. Chateaubriand. Escravidão. Independência. Monarquia Constitucional.  BETWEEN VIENNA AND VERONA: one strategy for two worlds (1815-1822) Abstract: The article proposes to study some nodal points of the so called "Age of Congress (1815-1822) to think how is reconfigured, in that period, the relationship between the Old and the New World. Special attention is given to the peculiarity experienced by Portuguese America, due to the Court's presence in Rio de Janeiro, which enabled different policy alternatives from those in Spanish America. With regard to the Congress of Verona, we assign special attention to negotiations regarding slave trade and the strengthening of constitutional monarchy. Keywords: Congress of Vienna. Congress of Verona. Chateaubriand. Slavery. Independence. Constitutional Monarchy.  ENTRE VIENA Y VERONA: una estrategia para los dos mundos (1815-1822)Resumen: El artá­culo propone estudiar algunos puntos de la " Era de los Congresos" (1815-1822) para analisar cómo se   reconfiguraron en ese perá­odo, las relaciones entre el Antiguo y el Nuevo Mundo. Se presta especial atención a la peculiaridad   experimentada por América portuguesa, a causa de la presencia de la Corte, en Rá­o de Janeiro, lo que permitió alternativas polá­ticas distintas   de las que experimentadas por América española. A lo que se refiere al Congreso de Verona,   atribuimos especial atención a las negociaciones referentes al comercio de esclavos y la consolidación de la monarquá­a constitucional. Palabras clave: Congreso de Viena. Congreso de Verona. Esclavitud. Independencia. Monarquá­a constitucional.  

Marx and Slavery

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-117
Author(s):  
John Bellamy Foster ◽  
Hannah Holleman ◽  
Brett Clark
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Marxian Theory ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Racial Capitalism

The rise to prominence of analyses of racial capitalism represents a breakthrough in Marxian theory. This has necessarily been accompanied by a critique of previous Marxian analyses, which all too often ignored or minimized the relation of slavery to capitalism. In recent years, however, these criticisms of orthodox Marxist treatments of slavery have been extended, much more problematically, to the work of Karl Marx himself. Although Marx never wrote a treatise on slavery, the issue of slave labor was woven into his analysis of social formations, both ancient and modern, and was inextricably intertwined with his treatment of wage labor.

scholarly journals RODEADOS POR IKÚ

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-146
Author(s):  
Philippe Manoel da Silva Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Data Base ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Trade Data

Esse trabalho propõe discutir a mortalidade, doenças e curas pelo que denominaremos como História antropológica, tendo como palco as ações dos indivíduos escravizados da região da África Centro-Ocidental e a relação destes com o escravismo colonial no Rio de Janeiro em sua longa duração. Como base metodológica e teórica utilizaremos o conceito de economia crioula, ainda em construção, que pretende enfatizar o necessário diálogo epistêmico entre cultura e economia, por meio da Antropologia, e da História econômica com o objetivo de entender a complexidade do escravismo na espacialidade da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, utilizando o cruzamento de fontes diversas: Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (Projeto Resgate), Biblioteca Municipal de Luanda, Banco de Dados do Tráfico Transatlântico de Escravos (Slave Trade Data-Base).

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