African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with
abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received
4,000,000 Africans, over four times as many as any other American
destination. Comparatively speaking, Brazil received 40% of the
total number of Africans brought to the Americas, while the US
received approximately 10%. Due to this huge influx of Africans,
today Brazil's African-descended population is larger than the
population of most African countries. Therefore, it is no surprise
that Slavery Studies are one of the most consolidated fields in
Brazilian historiography. In the last decades, a number of
discussions have flourished on issues such as slave agency, slavery
and law, slavery and capitalism, slave families, demography of
slavery, transatlantic slave trade, abolition etc. In addition to
these more consolidated fields, current research has focused on
illegal enslavement, global perspectives on slavery and the slave
trade, slavery and gender, the engagement of different social
groups in the abolitionist movement or Atlantic connections. Taking
into consideration these new trends of Brazilian slavery studies,
this volume of collected articles gives leading scholars the chance
to present their research to a broader academic community. Thus,
the interested reader get to know in more detail these current
trends in Brazilian historiography on slavery.
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