SLAVERY OF AFRICANS AND WOOD MAKING IN GRÃO-PARÁ IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY
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What I intend to emphasize in this text is the presence of enslaved Africans in the manufacture of wood, in the Captaincy of Grão-Pará, mainly at the end of the 18th century, when the effects of the intensification of trafficking in African captives to the region were already felt, through the activities of the General Trading Company of Grão-Pará and Maranhão. Based on the documentation of the Overseas Historical Archive and the Public Archive of Pará, a dialogue with the historiography pertinent to the theme, especially that which seeks to problematize the “human void”, which was sometimes intended to be demonstrated in narratives about the colonial Amazon, concealed in the view from: extractive region with the use of indigenous labor (Vergolino-Henry & Figueredo, 1990; Funes, 1995; Gomes, 1997; Bezerra Neto, 2012; Chambouleyron, 2004 and 2006; Barbosa, 2009; Silva, 2013).
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