%0 Journal Article %T Jos¨¦ Gon£¿alves da Silva: traficante e tr¨¢fico de escravos no litoral norte da prov¨ªncia do Rio de Janeiro, depois da lei de 1850 %A Pereira %A Walter Luiz Carneiro de Mattos %J Tempo %D 2011 %I Universidade Federal Fluminense %R 10.1590/S1413-77042011000200012 %X the article gives us the career of jose gon£¿alves da silva, who experienced the confiscation of part of his property after the law of september 1850. through microhistory, without neglecting the general outlines of the atlantic slave trade and merchant capital, we hope to get a broader view of the illegal slave trade and its agents, a relatively unexplored subject in brazilian historiography. %K the empire of brazil %K rio de janeiro %K illegal slave trade. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-77042011000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en