“Appalling mortality”: disembarkation, demographics, and African diseases

This article contributes to a better understanding of the conditions which Africans endured immediately after landing in Brazil, taking the study beyond what happened in the slave ships. It highlights the importance of Eastern Africans in the southeast of Brazil, in the beginning of the nineteenth c...

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Published inCiência & saude coletiva Vol. 27; no. 9; pp. 3389 - 3398
Main Authors Pimenta, Tania Salgado, dos Santos Gomes, Flavio
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Associacao Brasileira de Pos-Graduacao em Saude Coletiva - ABRASCO 01.09.2022
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Summary:This article contributes to a better understanding of the conditions which Africans endured immediately after landing in Brazil, taking the study beyond what happened in the slave ships. It highlights the importance of Eastern Africans in the southeast of Brazil, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, something that must be considered in order to do a deeper analysis of identity reinventions, diseases, and healing practices. The background of the suffering of those people can be found in the debates and political negotiations surrounding the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade and the independence of Brazil.
ISSN:1413-8123
1678-4561
DOI:10.1590/1413-81232022279.05872022EN