The insertion of Africans in the Zona da Mata - Minas Gerais, century

Abstract

The article discusses the insertion of Africans in two properties of the Zona da Mata Mineira before and after the end of the transatlantic slave captives in 1850. Note the importance of this mechanism of reproduction of the labor force for the maintenance/expansion of the number of slaves. We have detected that slaves acquired by these owners were mostly coming from a particular region of Africa, and that these Africans were mostly men of productive age (typical of plantation areas), and this is reflected even after the end trafficking and other regions of the province of Minas Gerais. As we are the traditions and memories of those captives that influenced the formation of the slave communities of the region during the nineteenth century.