Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil

ISBN: 0271013214

Author: Conrad, Robert Edgar

Condition: New

ContentsList of Illustrations xiiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xxviiPart I. "Men of Stone and of Iron" The African Slave Trade1.1. The Beginnings of the Portuguese-African Slave Trade in the Fifteenth Century, as Described by the Chronicler Gomes Eannes de Azurara 51.2. The Enslavement Process in the Portuguese Dominions of King Philip III of Spain in the Early Seventeenth Century 111.3. A Portuguese Doctor Describes the Suffering of Black Slaves in Africa and on the Atlantic Voyage (1793) 151.4. A Young Black Man Tells of His Enslavement in Africa and Shipment to Brazil about the Middle of the Nineteenth Century 231.5. An Ex-Slavetrader's Account of the Enslavement Process in Africa and the Illegal Traffic to Brazil (1848-1849) 281.6. "It Was the Same as Pigs in a Sty" A Young African's Account of Life on a Slave Ship (1849) 371.7. A Slave Revolt at Sea and Brutal Reprisals (1845) 391.8. A British Physician Describes the State of Africans upon Their Arrival in Brazil (1841-1843) 431.9. A British Clergyman's Impressions of the Valongo Slave Market in Rio de Janeiro (1828) 48Part II. "A Hell for Blacks" Slavery in Rural Brazil2.1. An Italian Jesuit Advises Sugar Planters on the Treatment of Their Slaves (1711) 552.2. A Royal Decree on the Feeding of Slaves and Their Days Off (1701) 602.3. "I Doubt that the Moors Are So Cruel to Their Slaves" The Feeding of Slaves in Late Colonial Bahia 612.4. The Masters and the Slaves: A Frenchman's Account of Society in Rural Pernambuco Early in the Nineteenth Century 632.5. "The African Man Transformed into the American Beast" Slavery in Rural Pernambuco in the 1840s 712.6. Practical Advice on the Management of Plantation Slaves (1847) 772.7. Slave Life on a Plantation in the Province of Rio de Janeiro in the Late Nineteenth Century 792.8. A Medical Report on Slaves on Five Coffee Plantations in the Province of Rio de Janeiro (1853) 862.9. "There Are Plantations Where the Slaves Are Numb with Hunger" A Medical Thesis on Plantation Diseases and Their Causes (1847) 912.10. The Annual Work Routine on Plantations in Maranhao in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 962.11. A Brazilian Senator Comments on the High Mortality among Rural Slave Children in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 992.12. A Bahian Sugar Planter Registers His Slaves (1872) 100Part III. Slave Life in Cities and at the Mines3.1. Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro as Seen through Newspaper Advertisements (1821) 1113.2. A North American Describes Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro (1846) 1153.3. A Royal Navy Surgeon Discusses the Black Coffee Carriers of Rio de Janeiro (1848) 1243.4. The Sedan Chair and the Hammock: Urban Transportation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 1263.5. Slave Prostitutes in the Brazilian Capital (1871) 1293.6. Newspaper Advertisements for Black Wet Nurses (1821-1854) 1333.7. A French Doctor with Twelve Years of Medical Experience in Brazil Advises Mothers on Choosing a Black Wet Nurse (1843) 1353.8. Was the Black Wet Nurse a Transmitter of Disease? A Medical Debate in Rio de Janeiro (1846) 1373.9. The Black Wet Nurse: A Status Symbol (1863) 1393.10. Slave Workers at the Diamond Washings of Tejuco, Minas Gerais, in the Early Nineteenth Century 1403.11. Black Miners at a British-Owned Gold Mine in the 1860s 1433.12. "Common Graves" How City Slaves Were Buried 147Part IV. "From Babylon to Jerusalem" Slavery and the Catholic Church4.1. Slavery and Church Doctrine