The Atlantic demographics of Africans in Rio de Janeiro in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries: some patterns based on parish registers
Gomes, Fávio.
Historia Ciencias Saude--Manguinhos 19 Suppl. 1: 81-106
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0104-5970 PMID: 23370101 DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702012000500006Document Number: 303148
The article presents serial data on African Atlantic demographics in Rio de Janeiro in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early decades of the nineteenth century, highlighting parish death, marriage, and baptismal registers. These represent partial, local findings from a broader demographic study underway on various urban and rural regions of slaveholding Brazil, based on a variety of historical registers, which are used in an analysis of sociodemographic patterns (age, occupation, kinship, disease, gender, price) and variations in African ethnonyms from 1650 through 1870.