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A “Intelligencia Saquarema” no Combate ao Tráfico Atlântico de Escravos (1850-1860)

Abstract

With the approval of Law N. 581 of September 5, 1850, also called by Eusébio de Queirós Law, the Imperial Government began to adopt diferente means in order to repress the action of the slave dealers in the national territory. This theme has been successfully dealt with for some time by specialized historiography in the final years of the trade of Africans to Brazil. Taking a slightly diferente path, this article turns to the means employed by the Imperial Government abroad for that same purpose. In this sense, its focus is on the intelligence servisse developed by Brazil’s consular agentes in Portugal in the 1850s to follow the traces of Portugueses lave dealers who returned or moved to there after the hardening of anti-trafficking measures in the Empire.