The Portuguese Empire was the stage for one of the largest movements of enslaved people during early modern times. Almost two millions enslaved humans were violently carried from Africa in Portuguese vessels in the eighteenth century alone. Yet, in contrast to British or French slave traders based in Europe, for which a vast literature is available, little is known about the Lisbon traders. This paper aims at filling this gap by paying attention to the trajectory of two Lisbon slave traders: Domingos Dias da Silva and Jose Antonio Pereira. In recounting their biographies and their business in Africa, Brazil, and Asia, we draw attention to the active role Lisbon-based slave traders played in the financing, organisation, and carrying of slave traffic, as well as the different institutional conditions they confronted when profiting from the commerce in humans. Domingos Dias da Silva became a key state contractor in spite of his poor origins, while Pereira featured as a global broker, connecting different markets in four continents. These two agents and their diverse characteristics help shed light on the slave trade, the context in which it expanded, and on the people who conducted this infamous commerce.

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国家承包商和全球经纪人：十八世纪两个里斯本商人的行程和跨大西洋奴隶贸易

葡萄牙帝国是近代早期最大的奴隶运动之一。仅在 18 世纪，就有近 200 万被奴役的人被用葡萄牙船只从非洲暴力带走。然而，与有大量文献资料的欧洲的英国或法国奴隶贩子相比，对里斯本商人知之甚少。本文旨在通过关注里斯本两位奴隶贩子 Domingos Dias da Silva 和 Jose Antonio Pereira 的轨迹来填补这一空白。在讲述他们的传记和他们在非洲、巴西和亚洲的业务时，我们提请注意里斯本的奴隶贩子在贩卖奴隶的融资、组织和携带方面发挥的积极作用，以及他们从人类贸易中获利时所面临的不同制度条件。尽管出身贫寒，多明戈斯·迪亚斯·达席尔瓦成为主要的国家承包商，而佩雷拉则以全球经纪人为特色，连接四大洲的不同市场。这两个代理人及其不同的特征有助于阐明奴隶贸易、其扩大的背景以及进行这一臭名昭著的贸易的人。