title: 'Formidable contagion': epidemics, work and recruitment in Colonial Amazonia (1660-1750).
abstract: The text analyzes the extent to which smallpox and measles epidemics provoked transformations in the ways in which workforces were acquired and used in colonial Amazonia from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century, with an increase in slave raids on the indigenous population and the attempt to organize a trade route in African slaves to the region. It also explores how indigenous mortality rates at the end of the seventeenth century led to a concern with the region's defence and prompted the recruitment of soldiers from the Madeira islands.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de História, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brasil, 66035-190, rafaelch@ufpa.br.
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chambouleyron
authors.forename: Benedito Costa
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Barbosa
authors.forename: Fernanda Aires
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Bombardi
authors.forename: Claudia Rocha de
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Sousa