- Source: Manoel Pinto da Fonseca (slave trader)
Manoel Pinto da Fonseca (10 October 1804 – 20 October 1855) was a 19th-century businessman described as "the most notorious slave dealer in all Brazil". His business was a "highly organized mercantile house capable of operating on four continents" and may have had up to 50 employees.
Biography
Da Fonseca was born in the Porto region of Portugal in 1804. He entered the business around 1837 in company with his brothers. According to a British report based on a declaration by Da Fonseca, his profits in 1844 were £150,000. He trafficked enslaved people from Angola and the coast near the Congo River. In 1844 or 1845, Da Fonseca bought the slaving brig Uncas from Cuban shippers who had in turn bought it from American slave trader William H. Williams of Washington, D.C. Porpoise and Kentucky were also Da Fonseca's ships.
Da Fonseca's major competitors in Brazil were José Bernardino de Sá and Tomás da Costa Ramos; all three hired U.S.-flagged ships and American captains and sailors during what was known as the "contraband era".
Da Fonseca was deported to Portugal in 1851. He died in Paris in 1855.
See also
Atlantic slave trade to Brazil
References
Further reading
Ferreira, Roquinaldo (1996), "Chapter 6", Dos sertões ao Atlântico: tráfico ilegal de escravos e comércio lícito em Angola, 1830–1860 [From the Hinterlands to the Atlantic: Illegal Slave Trade and Legal Commerce in Angola, 1830–1860] (in Brazilian Portuguese), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Horne, Gerald (2007). "3. Buying and Kidnapping Africans". The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York University Press. pp. 53–66. doi:10.18574/nyu/9780814737286.003.0006. ISBN 978-0-8147-3728-6.
Mesquita, João Marcos (2019). O comércio ilegal de escravos no Atlântico: A trajetória de Manoel Pinto da Fonseca, c.1831 - c.1850 (PDF) (Thesis) (in Brazilian Portuguese).
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