Os desembarques de cativos africanos e as rotinas médicas no Porto do Recife antes de 1831

Abstract

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. Resumo

Escritos Sobre Saúde E Escravidão

“…Nesta obra o autor dedica um capítulo para descrever as principais doenças que acometiam os cativos no trânsito para o Brasil, como também a posição do Estado frente o adoecimento de africanos nos navios negreiros. E o artigo publicado pelo professor Marcus Maciel Carvalho, no qual, a partir dos relatos produzidos pelos agentes de saúde da Provedoria-Mor da saúde de Pernambuco, escritos baseados nas vistorias em navios negreiros, analisa a dinâmica do tráfico de escravos 45 .…”