| Abstrakt: |
The article addresses the economu of the Pernambuco Captaincy's economy in the second half of the seventeenth century, focusing on the evolution of the sugar industry, as reflected in the value of tenths contracts and the number of sugar mills. It highlights the slave trade as one of the pivotal factors in the recovery of the captaincy's sugar sector, providing data to estimate the trends of the Luso-Brazilian slavery ventures. It tries to assess the impact of internal and external constraints on the sugar production, particularly the growing competition and the downward trend in the Atlantic market. The article contends that after a severe downturn in the 1660s Pernambuco's economy resumed growing in the following decades, as the number of sugar mills and the value of production rose. Pernambuco largely superseded the Rio de Janeiro's sugar production, although it lagged behind Bahia. Finally, evidence of a new crisis can be seen in the 1690s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
