A Importância da Criança Escravizada e seu Comércio no Oeste Paulista, 1861-1869

Abstract

In this article, we shed light on the importance of the slave child in the ambit of the coffee expansion in São Paulo. Therefore, in addition to recovering part of the relevant bibliography on the subject, we mobilized secondary data and a large primary database resulting from deeds of purchase and sale of certified slaves in an important coffee-growing center in the State of São Paulo (Rio Claro), from 1861 to 1869. We sought to understand the relevance of the captive child and economic and demographic aspects related to the dynamics of the internal trafficking of this group, such as: volume of purchase and sale transactions occurring over the time period elected; dynamics of the sale price; the interaction between prices and sex, age, typology of domestic trade and experience / occupation; volume of children transacted individually or within groups of slaves; the participation of slave families in the scope of the negotiations we had access to.

Keywords
Slavery; Children; Slaves traffic; Brazil - São Paulo; XIX century