Formation of the maritime labor force in Brazil: culture and daily life, tradition and resistance (1808-1850)

Abstract

Since the 16th Century, Brazil has played a major role in the rise of a new economical and social order, in which ships represented a space of struggle and contradictions among rulers, captains and sailors. This article will study the proletarization process that transformed Indians, small farmers, free and slave black people in maritime labor force in Brazil during the first half of 19th century.

maritime labor; maritime culture; Brazil and the Atlantic system