scholarly journals Robinson Crusoe in the South Atlantic

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos
Keyword(s):  
Slave Trade ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
The South ◽  
Historical Significance

This article explores the Brazilian episode in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719). It argues that this episode not only plays a pivotal role in the novel’s plot, as it ends up in disaster and Crusoe’s shipwreck, but also has historical significance once it offers a glimpse of the transnational and transcontinental nature of the slave trade in the South Atlantic, involving Portugal, England and Brazil.

Epilogue

Napoleon ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
David A. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Adult Life ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
European History ◽  
The South ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Seriously Ill ◽  
Atlantic Island ◽  
Final Defeat

After his final defeat, Napoleon was transported to the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena by the British, where he lived under permanent guard. Unlike the rest of his adult life, these years were ones of inaction and largely of immobility. Napoleon spent these years seeking control not over Europe, but over how history would remember him. It was the last chapter of his life but, more important, the first chapter of the longer, hugely contentious story of his historical significance. In 1820, Napoleon fell seriously ill, and on May 5, 1821, he died at fifty-one. The Epilogue explains how his legacy continued to shape European history in a massive and direct manner for decades.

Linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: Asian textiles, Spanish silver, global capital, and the financing of the Portuguese–Brazilian slave trade (c.1760–1808)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
J. Bohorquez
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Global South ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Institutional Foundations

AbstractThis article aims to analyse some of the multilateral flows of capital that contributed to weaving a Global South during the second half of the eighteenth century. It specifically revisits the functioning and financing of the Portuguese slave trade from a global perspective, and offers insights for assessing older frameworks that explain it, in either triangular or bilateral terms. The article argues that the Portuguese slave traffic should be liberated from the South Atlantic borders to which it has been confined. In so doing, it offers an Atlantic history in a global perspective, disclosing the connections between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Putting the financing of the slave trade into a larger global perspective helps to more accurately explain how it actually operated in terms of the organization of trade. When the financial and institutional foundations of Asian and African trade are analysed together, it becomes evident that they were part of larger networks and capital flows, both westwards and eastwards, which were not just framed imperially or locally.

The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
South America ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
African Slave ◽  
History Of

Scholarly studies of the colonization of the Americas—especially of Latin America—have tended to minimize the role played by Africans and the African slave trade, treating the history of conquest and colonialism as a story of inevitable European domination of the hemisphere. However, from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century, colonialism in the Americas depended upon the exportation of slaves from Africa, a massive undertaking that was supported not only by Iberian Royal families but also by convoluted ideological and theological justifications elaborated by legal and religious scholars. During this period, Portugal dominated the slave trade, raiding its colonies in Southern Africa to supply its plantations (many run by Jesuits) in South America. In this sense, the story of the South Atlantic is a story of encounters and exchanges between Africa and the Americas.

scholarly journals Slavery, Royalty, and Racism

Ethnologies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-167
Author(s):  
Ana Lucia Araujo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Reconstruction Process ◽  
The 1950S

This paper examines the representations of Africa in Rio de Janeiro’s carnaval. During the second half of the twentieth century, Afro-Brazilian self-assertion movements took inspiration from the African American movement for civil rights. At the same time, public cultural assertion largely relied on recreated connections with Africa, often perceived as an idealized continent. This Africanization, first developed at the religious level, later also became visible in other cultural manifestations such as music, dance, fashion, and carnaval. The analysis of the example of theescolas de samba’s parades held during Rio de Janeiro carnaval since the 1950s demonstrates how the promotion of bonds with “Africa” is part of a reconstruction process in which the South Atlantic becomes a common zone of claims for recognition of multiple identities, in which the legacy of slavery and the slave trade is reconstructed and renewed.

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