Slavery, Empire and Civilization: A Luso-Brazilian Defense of the Slave Trade in the Age of Revolutions

被引：1

作者：

Schultz, Kirsten ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Seton Hall Univ, Dept Hist, S Orange, NJ 07079 USA

来源：

SLAVERY & ABOLITION | 2013年 / 34卷 / 01期

基金：

美国人文基金会;

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D O I：

10.1080/0144039X.2012.709041

中图分类号：

K [历史、地理];

学科分类号：

06 ;

摘要：

This article examines a defense of the slave trade mounted in the 1790s by the Luso-Brazilian Bishop Azeredo Coutinho. While Azeredo's defense has been interpreted as a function of his slave-owning family's interest, this article provides a broader analysis of Azeredo's writings on the slave trade and the Portuguese empire within the contexts of eighteenth-century Luso-Brazilian intellectual culture and transatlantic debates about empire, commerce and historical transformation. His writing on the imperial economy and the slave trade included both appeals to an eighteenth-century ideal of civilization as a process predicated upon the universality of humanity as well as defense of empire as the rational, just and necessary exploitation of the barbarous by the civilized.

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页码：98 / 117

页数：20