The ocean as a route of migration to and fom Brazil in the 17th century
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The ocean as a route of migration to and fom Brazil in the 17th century
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First with a narrow stream of migrants in search of a redwood deal and after the establishment of the sugar economy as a place to settle and start a new life, along the entire period of the colonial Brazil, and well after that, Europeans travelled to this territory, inside it and left it behind to return to Europe or to move to other continent.
It is well established that the West Coast of Africa, particularly Angola, was a point of contact with Brazil as a slave supplier region. But the Portuguese America was also a place of contact with other European political entities, such as the United Provinces of the Netherlands and the nearby Castile Indies, this contact more studied on a Spanish standpoint.
The present paper aims to approach this topic from a new perspective. Resorting to the inquisitorial processes focusing individuals that were in Brazil in the 17th century, a very complete source of information concerning singular trajectories but that also offers a broader set of data on related subjects, such as witnesses, this theme will be looked at in a more in-depth way.
It is our goal to present the most frequent places of departure in Europe, the destinations of the migrants in Brazil, the routes they followed to get there and interpret the fluctuations occurred during this period. This approach will also look at to the different kinds of mobility, trying to understand what caused them and what led the migrants to continue their movement to other territories before or even after settling in Brazil.
Using this historical source, often neglected to this kind of exercise concerning Brazil, we intend to demonstrate the individual journeys of these migrants, establish the importance of the African connection with concrete cases, test the ‘fluidity’ of the Spanish American border from a new angle and prove that the European competition promoted the circulation of people inside the northwest captaincies, invaded by the United Provinces, and between the two continents.
The present paper aims to approach this topic from a new perspective. Resorting to the inquisitorial processes focusing individuals that were in Brazil in the 17th century, a very complete source of information concerning singular trajectories but that also offers a broader set of data on related subjects, such as witnesses, this theme will be looked at in a more in-depth way.
It is our goal to present the most frequent places of departure in Europe, the destinations of the migrants in Brazil, the routes they followed to get there and interpret the fluctuations occurred during this period. This approach will also look at to the different kinds of mobility, trying to understand what caused them and what led the migrants to continue their movement to other territories before or even after settling in Brazil.
Using this historical source, often neglected to this kind of exercise concerning Brazil, we intend to demonstrate the individual journeys of these migrants, establish the importance of the African connection with concrete cases, test the ‘fluidity’ of the Spanish American border from a new angle and prove that the European competition promoted the circulation of people inside the northwest captaincies, invaded by the United Provinces, and between the two continents.
Criador
Diogo Andrade Cardoso
Data
29/06/2022
Tipo
8th IMHA International Congress of Maritime History