Abstract
From elements of histories of professional life that can be built even fragmentary way, I try to identify forms of involvement in the Luso-Brazilian merchant marine of slaves and freedmen, born in Africa, Portugal and Portuguese America. The temporality goes from the 1760s (when the first records of crew enrollment began to be made) until the year 1820. The text seeks to inventory the functions performed by these men, and present data of character census, such as age that were initiated in the world of maritime labor and time of their experience in the professions of the sea.
Slavery; Maritime History; Atlantic History; Colonial Brazil History; Social History of Work