What was Meant to be Silent: The African Slave Trade on The North Coast of Sao Paulo in Times of Piracy

Abstract

In the following text, we will analyze the reorganization of the illegal slave trade, having as scope the northern coast of Sao Paulo between 1831 and the mid-1850s. In that period, farms, sites and sheds were built in the beaches of Ubatuba, Sao Sebastiao and Ilhabela as part of the new logistics of the illegal slave trade. Far beyond the subsistence production and the cabotage trade, those beaches have been intensely marked by the last years of the Atlantic slave trade.