The Provedoria-Mor da Saúde of Pernambuco (Brazil), the government agency which took care of public health in Pernambuco, was created in 1810. Thereafter, slave ships that arrived at Recife were visited by health agents who verified if the recently arrived enslaved people carried diseases which were considered contagious, according to the 19 th century medical sciences. Only those who carried the said maladies were sent to the Santo Amaro Leprosarium to be treated. Once they were healed, they were returned to their owners to be sold. The employees of that health agency examined slave ships that carried more than 47 thousand people to Recife. Their reports help us to understand how the slave trade was carried out in a major Brazilian harbor, before it was declared illegal in 1831.
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Este trabalho analisa a questão do tráfico atlântico de escravos no Império brasileiro nos anos de 1840, a partir da apreensão e julgamento do Nova Granada. Utilizando fontes como o processo judicial da embarcação e as correspondências entre as autoridades inglesas, serão destacados a organização dos traficantes envolvidos na negociação e os embates entre Brasil e Inglaterra no período de auge do contrabando. O caso do Nova Granada, último navio negreiro julgado pela Comissão Mista anglo-brasileira no Rio de Janeiro, será possível investigar as tensões entre Brasil e Inglaterra em relação a “cláusula de equipamento” e o conluio do Império brasileiro com os interesses negreiros.
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