DE UMA COSTA A OUTRA, GOVERNO E AUTORIDADE NA CONEXÃO ENTRE A CAPITANIA DA BAHIA E A ÁFRICA ATLÂNTICA

Abstract

Sub-Saharan Africa in Early Modernity is discussed, particularly that part of the continent particularly that part of the continent that was connected by the Portuguese to the Atlantic system, which boosted the trade of captives and and its insertion in the nascent European capitalism. The region of Angola reported to the Viceroy of Brazil, that is, the governor of the of the captaincy of Bahia. In the meantime, the present text discusses how the correspondence between the two correspondence between the two governments during the pombaline period. We will analyze the most common topics, the commerce the requests for aid coming from Angola and their resolution by the governor of Bahia. The practices and exchanges studied here unveil aspects of the Portuguese Empire in the Modern their connections, powers, and limits of action. To this end documents from the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino - AHU Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino - AHU. We used the codex Eduardo Castro e Almeida for the period of King José I and his minister Pombal, 1750 to 1777.