1. Tecendo redes imperiais: uma dimensão asiática do comércio britânico de escravos no Atlântico no século XVIII
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Kazuo Kobayashi
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South asia ,Political science ,Triangular trade ,General Medicine ,Atlantic slave trade ,Humanities - Abstract
O seculo XVIII assistiu ao desenvolvimento da economia escravista atlântica, sustentada pela constante oferta de mao de obra do continente africano. Para comprar cativos africanos na costa do Atlântico, os mercadores estrangeiros tinham que atender as demandas expressas dos africanos, notadamente os tecidos indianos de algodao, que se tornaram o “carro-chefe” das mercadorias. Nesse periodo, o comercio anglo-asiatico, conduzido pela Companhia Britânica das Indias Orientais, desempenhou um papel central no fornecimento de texteis indianos para os comerciantes de escravos britânicos. Este artigo aborda como comerciantes britânicos adquiriam texteis na India para a Africa Atlântica. Ao examinar essa questao, o artigo ilustra o comercio global de algodao, das areas de producao de texteis indianos para a Africa Atlântica, e, em ultima analise, argumenta que a narrativa do chamado “comercio triangular” precisa ser substituida por outra perspectiva, que destaque o protagonismo de consumidores africanos e de teceloes sul-asiaticos. Weaving Imperial Networks: An Asian Dimension of the British Atlantic Slave Trade in the 18th Century The eighteenth century saw the development of the Atlantic slave-based economy, sustained by a constant supply of labor from the African continent. On the Atlantic coast, in order to purchase captives foreign merchants had to meet local demands for trade commodities, notably Indian cotton textiles, which became a crucial product. During this period, the Anglo-Asian trade, conducted by the English East India Company, played a central role in the supply of Indian textiles for British slave traders. This paper addresses how British merchants procured textiles in India for Atlantic Africa. By examining this question, the paper illustrates a global cotton trade that extended between the areas where Indian textiles were produced and Atlantic Africa. Finally, the paper argues that the so-called “triangular trade” narrative should be replaced by another perspective that emphasizes the agency of African consumers and South Asian weavers. Atlantic slave trade | Indian cotton textiles | English East India Company
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- 2021
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