Documenting, monetising and taxing Brazilian slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Although Brazil imported more African slaves than any other country in the Americas, knowledge of the accounting and taxation of slave-related transactions in Brazil is under-developed. We explore Portuguese-language documents showing how accounting and taxation were implicated in maintaining slaver...

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Main Author: Rodrigues, Lúcia Lima (author)
Other Authors: Craig, Russell James (author), Schmidt, Paulo (author), Santos, José Luis (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/38607
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/38607