Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Hunefeldt, Christine, 1950 - Paying the price of freedom
DDC:
306.3/62/098525
Keywords:
Slavery History
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19th century
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Peru
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Lima
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Slaves Family relationships
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History
;
19th century
;
Peru
;
Lima
;
Slavery
;
Peru
;
Lima
;
History
;
19th century
;
Slaves
;
Peru
;
Lima
;
Family relationships
;
History
;
19th century
;
Peru
;
Sklaverei
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Geschichte 1800-1854
;
Sozialgeschichte
Abstract:
Urban slavery was never envisaged as one of the possible important consequences of the slave trade. Nevertheless, over the course of time cities such as Lima, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, or Rio de Janeiro saw a gradual increase in their slave populations. Initially, slaves were sent to rural areas such as plantations or to mines located on coastal areas where, since the beginning of the frontier years, the indigenous population had either died or moved away, escaping Iberian encroachment. Of the approximately nine and a half million Africans who were forcibly transported to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, about 98 percent were destined for plantations that raised and exported crops such as sugar, tobacco, cocoa, and cotton.
Note:
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