José Gon？alves da Silva: traficante e tráfico de escravos no litoral norte da província do Rio de Janeiro, depois da lei de 1850

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.