O tráfico negreiro na cartografia luso-afro-brasileira: a circulação da informação geográfica no Atlântico Sul

Abstract

Just like the upheavals caused overseas by the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century, the Treaty of Utrecht, the Seven Years' War and the Napoleonic expansion changed the South and North Atlantic commercial network makeup in global scale. By the end of the 18th century, the European ports and factories in Africa were fully recorded by the cartographers from Portuguese America with great accuracy, spreading out important nautical and geographical information. We seek to highlight the circulation of the military, ethnographic and mercantile information. I will try to underline the heuristic potential of the cartographic sources for the study of the slave trade in the second half of the 18th century