Robinson Crusoe in the South Atlantic
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2021.26178Keywords:
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, English novel, slave trade, slavery, colonialismAbstract
This article explores the Brazilian episode in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719). It argues that this episode not only plays a pivotal role in the novel’s plot, as it ends up in disaster and Crusoe’s shipwreck, but also has historical significance once it offers a glimpse of the transnational and transcontinental nature of the slave trade in the South Atlantic, involving Portugal, England and Brazil.
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