Capitaneando em rotas atlânticas: atuação dos capitães de navio nas fainas do comércio negreiro, Pernambuco, século XVIII

Abstract

The present work entitled Captain in Atlantic Routes: Performance of ship captains in the slave trade, Pernambuco, 18th century, deals with the study of the group of specialized officers of the vessels, in particular the captains or masters, depending on the literature, and their performance amidst the end of the Atlantic African slave trade for the Pernambuco‘s Captaincy during the 18th century. In this sense, it is necessary to understand the commercial dynamism of the Recife‘s port region, as well as the mechanisms of insertion of these workers in the middle of the market, a place where they came into contact with mercantile groups, slave owners, authority figures and seafaring workers, and how these power relations interacted in the recluse environment of vessels of the Atlantic trade. Understanding the daily slavery certainly requires an analysis of the hierarchy constituted at sea, a bridge between the estates transferred directly from the land, and the routine and treatment of that floating society. In this way, investigating the trajectories of these subjects, ship captains, consists of unveiling the social experiences of the agents who commanded the tragedy of the violent transfer of millions of Africans to forced jobs in the new world. Because of the orders of these men that the black diaspora sails were raised.