Manumission and Ethnicity in Urban Slavery: Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888

Nishida, Mieko

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“…In the late 16 th and early 17 th centuries, there was intense slave trade from harbors in Ghana and Nigeria in the Gulf of Benin to Salvador and Recife, with several Afro-Brazilian religions being based on religious practices from this region in West Africa, where the Ioruba group predominates ( Klein, 2002 ). In the 19 th century, when slavery became illegal in Brazil, most of the slaves who were manumitted in Salvador came from West Africa ( Nishida, 1993 ).…”

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β-globin haplotypes in normal and hemoglobinopathic individuals from Reconcavo Baiano, State of Bahia, Brazil

2010

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Five restriction site polymorphisms in the β-globin gene cluster (HincII-5‘ ε, HindIII-G γ, HindIII-A γ, HincII- ψβ1 and HincII-3‘ ψβ1) were analyzed in three populations (n = 114) from Reconcavo Baiano, State of Bahia, Brazil. The groups included two urban populations from the towns of Cachoeira and Maragojipe and one rural Afro-descendant population, known as the “quilombo community”, from Cachoeira municipality. The number of haplotypes found in the populations ranged from 10 to 13, which indicated higher diversity than in the parental populations. The haplotypes 2 (+ - - - -), 3 (- - - - +), 4 (- + - - +) and 6 (- + + - +) on the βA chromosomes were the most common, and two haplotypes, 9 (- + + + +) and 14 (+ + - - +), were found exclusively in the Maragojipe population. The other haplotypes (1, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16) had lower frequencies. Restriction site analysis and the derived haplotypes indicated homogeneity among the populations. Thirty-two individuals with hemoglobinopathies (17 sickle cell disease, 12 HbSC disease and 3 HbCC disease) were also analyzed. The haplotype frequencies of these patients differed significantly from those of the general population. In the sickle cell disease subgroup, the predominant haplotypes were BEN (Benin) and CAR (Central African Republic), with frequencies of 52.9% and 32.4%, respectively. The high frequency of the BEN haplotype agreed with the historical origin of the afro-descendant population in the state of Bahia. However, this frequency differed from that of Salvador, the state capital, where the CAR and BEN haplotypes have similar frequencies, probably as a consequence of domestic slave trade and subsequent internal migrations to other regions of Brazil.

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β-globin haplotypes in normal and hemoglobinopathic individuals from Reconcavo Baiano, State of Bahia, Brazil

2010

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“…For Salvador, specifically, a study by Stuart Schwartz on the first half of the eighteenth century found eighteen cases of substitution, or 3 percent of all paid manumissions. For the longer period of 1808-1888, Mieko Nishida found 35, or 2.6 percent in a sample of 1,332 paid manumissions (Schwartz 2001: 205-206;Nishida 1993). 24 I have located, for the first half of the nineteenth century alone, 412 slaves who offered 433 other slaves in return for their freedom and in a few cases for that of their children.…”

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Slaves Who Owned Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, Brazil

Reis¹

2021

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It was not uncommon in Brazil for slaves to own slaves. Slaves as masters of slaves existed in many slave societies and societies with slaves, but considering modern, chattel slavery in the Americas, Brazil seems to have been a special case where this phenomenon thrived, especially in nineteenth-century urban Bahia. The investigation is based on more than five hundred cases of enslaved slaveowners registered in ecclesiastical and manumission records in the provincial capital city of Salvador. The paper discusses the positive legal basis and common law rights that made possible this peculiar form of slave ownership. The paper relates slave ownership by slaves with the direction and volume of the slave trade, the specific contours of urban slavery, access by slaves to slave trade networks, and slave/master relations. It also discusses the web of convivial relations that involved the slaves of slaves, focusing on the ethnic and gender profiles of the enslaved master and their slaves.

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“…See for example Bowser (1974), Brockington (2000), Blanchard, (1992), and Lockhart (1968). For works addressing the implications of overtly radical behavior by slaves in other parts of the Americas see Gaspar (1985), da Costa (1994), dos Santos Gomes (2002), Hall (1971;, Mullin (1972), Nishida (1993), Schwartz (1992) and Reis (1993 (Bennett 2003;Lane 2003). As these historians have suggested, the institution of slavery had profound implications upon the larger society even in areas such as colonial New Spain, where slavery was neither the predominant method of dividing labor, nor marked by the eminence of a plantation complex (Bennett 2003, 14-15).…”

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Enslaved rebels, fugitives, and litigants: the resistance continuum in colonial quito

Bryant

2004

Colonial Latin American Review

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Manumission and Ethnicity in Urban Slavery: Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888

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β-globin haplotypes in normal and hemoglobinopathic individuals from Reconcavo Baiano, State of Bahia, Brazil

β-globin haplotypes in normal and hemoglobinopathic individuals from Reconcavo Baiano, State of Bahia, Brazil

Slaves Who Owned Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, Brazil

Enslaved rebels, fugitives, and litigants: the resistance continuum in colonial quito

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