The trade in the living: the formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries

1.The Apprenticeship of Colonization

2.Africans, "The Slaves from Guinea"

3.Lisbon, Slave-Trade Capital of the Western World

4.Amerindians, the "Slaves of the Land"

5.Evangelization in One Colony

6.The War over the Slave Markets

7.Brasilica Angola

Conclusion: Brazil's Singularity

Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Presentation of the English Edition; Author's Preface to the American Edition; 1 The Apprenticeship of Colonization; The Colonists' and the Missionaries' Paths; The Metropolis's Options; The Aims of the Portuguese Slave Trade; The Slave Trade as an Instrument of Colonial Policy; Demand and Supply of African Slaves: What Is the "Primum Mobile?"; 2 Africans, "the Slaves from Guinea"; "Salvation's Way"; The Slaving Trade Winds; São Tomé-Laboratory of Tropical Slavery; The Santomese Mocambos and the Bahia's Indians

Invasion and Evangelization in West Central Africa3 Lisbon, Slave-Trade Capital of the Western World; The Ibero-American Slave Market; The Portuguese Asientos and Angola; Captives and Slaves in the Ethiopic Ocean; Predators, Governors, and Bankers; From Asian Spice to the Atlantic Slave Trade; The Colonial Men and the Overseas Men; Plunder and Trade in Angola; Luanda, Rio de Janeiro, and the Río de La Plata; Intertropical Experiments; Agglutinating Good and Ancillary Good; 4 Amerindians, the "Slaves of the Land"; Amerindian Coerced Labor; The Trade in Amerindian Slaves

Hindrances to the Trade in AmerindiansThe Microbial Unification of the World50; Doctors and Empiricists; African Slavery and the Plunder of Amazonia; The Uprooting of Captives in Africa and America; The Social Reproduction of Slaves; 5 Evangelization in One Colony; The Antislavery of the Holy Sacraments; Antislavery and Proslavery Thought in Times of Asientos; The Jesuit Theory of the Slave Trade; The Descimento of Indians and the Atlantic Traffic in Africans; The Bipolarity of Luso-Brasilic Slavery; 6 The War over the Slave Markets

The African Slave-Trade Crisis and the Amerindian Slave-Trade CyclePeruleiros and Bandeirantes; Amerindian Captivity and Paulista Autonomism; The War for Africans; Nassau-Siegen: "Humanist Prince" and Slave Trader138; Colonial Planters versus European Shareholders; The Luso-Brasilico Counterattack in Angola; Luanda 1648: The Battle of the Ethiopic Ocean; The Luso-Brasilico Enslavers' Task Force; Who Retook Angola?; The Jesuits and Control of the Ethiopic Ocean; Rio De Janeiro-Buenos Aires, and Bahia-Benin; Consequences of the Palmares Wars; The Paulistas' Paradox

Spatial Capacity and Social Control of Colonizationphoto gallery; 7 Brasílica Angola; Manioc in Slave-Ships and in African Fairs; Nzimbu, Zimbo, Jimbo; Portuguese, Angolista, and Brasílico in West Central Africa; The Brasilico Offensive in Angola and Congo; Salvador de Sá's Successors in Luanda; João Fernandes Vieira in Angola; The Marvelous Conversion of Queen Njinga; Schismatic Congo; Vidal De Negreiros and the Routing of Congo; Mbwila: The Tri-Continental Battle; Brasílico Maneuvers in the African Wars; Putsch in Luanda and Knives Drawn in Recife