Em costas negras

by Manolo Florentino

"Detailed treatment of the Africa-Rio de Janeiro slave trade from the 1790s-1830s, based on extensive archival research in Brazil. The trade was 'the most important sector of endogenous [capital] accumulation in the colony,' and the traders were the empresarial elites of the local socioeconomic hierarchy. Includes extensive quantitative material"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.