In the margin of second slavery? The dynamic of Amazon Valley slavery in the context of capitalist world-economy

Abstract:

It is not unusually in Brazilian historiography the perception of the economic and social formation of the Amazon as a space in which a slave labor and agricultural-based economy hadn’t been instituted. Although this idea has been deconstructed by several studies carried out in the last decades, which have demonstrated the economic and demographic effectiveness of slavery in the Amazon Valley, an effort has not yet been made to reflect on the insertion of the region’s slave economy in the capitalist world-economy. In this article, we analyze how this insertion occurred in the margin of the most well-known facet of the global history of slavery in the nineteenth century - the second slavery.

Keywords:
Amazon Valley slavery; capitalist world-economy; second slavery.