Some come from there, others from here: The Amazon in the Brazilian internal slave trade (19th century)

Abstract

This article focuses on the slave trade of african and creole slaves within the Amazon region and between this and other parts of the Brazilian Empire, called by historiography as internal slave trade. From various evidences, four specific questions are analyzed (which are divided into five sections): the importance of internal slave trade for the slave economy of the Amazon region in the colonial period; the situation of the region in the context of the intensification of this slave trade, after 1850; the configuration of slave trade within the Province of Pará, especially the crucial place occupied by the slave market in Belém; and, finally, the experiences and the slave agency in internal slave trade.