Crédito e privilégios de comerciantes estrangeiros no Rio de Janeiro: na finalização do tráfico de escravos, na década de 1840

Abstract

From the 1830s, the supply of credit by foreign traders, mainly British, in the slave traffic, was through sales on consignment and installment payments. As a result, was essential the British pressure to limit credit in 1848 was necessary to eliminate thetrade of Africans to Brazil.