O AFRICANO INDESEJADO. COMBATE AO TRÁFICO, SEGURANÇA PÚBLICA E REFORMA CIVILIZADORA (GRÃO-PARÁ, 1850-1860)

Abstract

Among the reasons that had taken the Brazilian Empire in middle of 19th century to effectively fight against the Atlantic slave trade from Africa to Brazil, extinguishing it in little time, detach that relative in such a way public security face enslaved revolts and the fear of epidemics associates to the African slave trade, how much to the civilization idea whose european and white model excluded the african contribution, from there the distrust of africanization of Brazil. The combat to the slave trade in the decade of the 1850 and fight undertaken against the dealers, focusing the Province of Grão-Pará, place of the actions of the dealers in the decade of 1850 and as the continuity of the slave trade implied problems of external and internal security in the same one, having the necessity of its combat and extinguishing.