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DOCUMENTOS Relativos ao Apresamento, Julgamento e Entrega da Barca Francesa Charles et Georges e em Geral ao Engajamento de Negros, Debaixo da Denominação de Trabalhadores Livres nas Possessões da Coroa Portuguesa [...]. Lisboa. 1858. - DOCUMENTOS Relativos ao Apresamento, Julgamento e Entrega da Barca Francesa Charles et Georges e em Geral ao Engajamento de Negros, Debaixo da Denominação de Trabalhadores Livres nas Possessões da Coroa Portuguesa na Costa Oriental e Occidental de África para as Colónias Francezas Apresentados às Cortes na Sessão Legislativa de 1858 . Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1858. [4], 250, 16, XVIII, [2] pp.; 295 mm. Official compilation of parliamentary documents presented to the Cortes during the 1858 legislative session, relating to the seizure, trial, and subsequent surrender of the French ship Charles et Georges , an episode that exposed the diplomatic frictions surrounding the repression of the Atlantic slave trade. In particular, the seizure of the vessel, accused of carrying 110 enslaved Africans to be sold to a French sugar plantation in the Mascarene Islands, intensified the debate about the designation of ”free laborers” in the Portuguese possessions on the east and west coasts of Africa, a recruitment process that, due to its form and the circuits involved, was frequently associated with coercive practices and the continuation of the slave trade under contractual guises. This volume is a veritable state dossier: it brings together correspondence and instructions between colonial and metropolitan authorities, procedural documents and opinions, diplomatic notes and official communications, composing the administrative narrative of the incident (from the capture to the outcome) and, in parallel, documentation on the system of contract labor and its legal and political framework. It is, therefore, a first-rate source for the history of late abolitionism, contract labor in the imperial space, and Portuguese diplomacy in Africa in the 1850s. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate