Portuguese slave legislation and the first wave of uprisings by enslaved africans in the iberian atlantic world, 1400s-1500s

Filipa Ribeiro da Silva ^[1]
1. [1] Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  
  Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  
  Países Bajos
Localización: e-Journal of Portuguese History, ISSN-e 1645-6432, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Management of Diversity in the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1974 – Part 2), págs. 24-39
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- English
  While Patisso and Carbone (2020) recently argued that slave laws in the Americas, including in Brazil, were inspired by Spanish legislation, this article demonstrates that Portugal issued legislation on slaves from as early as the fifteenth century and that this legislation was inspired by the country’s experience with enslaved people in Portugal, the Atlantic islands, and Atlantic Africa, and then transferred to the rest of the empire. The article also explains the key role that the first wave of enslaved uprisings in the Atlantic, starting in São Tomé in the 1510s, played in developing the Portuguese legal corpora on slaves.
- português
  Recentemente, Patisso e Carbone (2020) argumentaram que as leis escravistas das Américas, inclusive do Brasil, foram inspiradas em legislação espanhola Quinhentista e Seiscentista. Este artigo demonstra, porém, que já no século XV Portugal emitia legislação relativa ao governo dos Africanos escravizados chegados e residentes em Portugal, nas ilhas atlânticas e na África atlântica – um corpo legislativo e uma experiência posteriormente transferida a outras partes do império. Este artigo evidencia também o papel fundamental da primeira onda de ‘levantamentos’ escravos no Atlântico, com início em São Tomé na década de 1510, no desenvolvimento dos textos jurídicos portugueses relativos aos Africanos escravizados.