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The slave trade escalated in the 1790s, and for the first three decades of the nineteenth century it remained intense, keeping pace with the growth of the sugar economy. In the early 1830s, Dugrivel noted that slaving was still openly continuing even though it had been banned in 1831. An average of seven thousand slaves are estimated to have been ‘‘imported’’ annually during the initial decades of the nineteenth century, transported primarily through the African regions fringing the Bight of Benin.

One instance occurred in 1823 and 1824, when Bahia was involved in a regional war for independence from Portugal. However, the peak resulted not only from the number who died in combat but also particularly from deaths caused by the critical lack of supplies and the resulting price increases, which probably worsened the Bahians’ already poor diet. The second peak took place in 1830, caused by a setting of the cemiterada : 25 Piedade Plaza: social types found in the city, ca. 1825 (From Rugendas, Malerische Reise ) smallpox epidemic that swept through all ten of Salvador’s parishes.

The chief impediment is a lack of reliable data on the total population; its exact distribution according to race, age, and gender; and its growth rates. Historian Johildo Athayde has observed that the mortality rate peaked three times between the 1820s and 1850s. One instance occurred in 1823 and 1824, when Bahia was involved in a regional war for independence from Portugal. However, the peak resulted not only from the number who died in combat but also particularly from deaths caused by the critical lack of supplies and the resulting price increases, which probably worsened the Bahians’ already poor diet.

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