Registros contábeis e escravatura no Brasil oitocentista: uma abordagem histórica

Abstract

The purpose of this monograph is to present the accounting of the enslaved with a focus on the activity of the slave trade and also the accounting of slave buyers, based on the analysis of records and the inventories from the time of nineteenth-century Brazil. With a historical approach, from the analysis of primary documents, collected at the Historical and Geographical Institute of Pernambuco (IAHGP), and secondary documents, newspapers from the period of slavery. Based on the analysis of documentary sources, from the slave trade to the purchase of those enslaved by the lords of the plantations, the enslaved were recorded in the accounts as property to generate wealth. With the researched accounting records, it was understood that the treatment given to the enslaved was similar to the way in which goods and animals were treated, which indicates the dehumanization and objectification of human beings (enslaved) during the period of slavery.