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The identification of the Portuguese as intrepid sailors crossing oceans
and bridging the world, as praised in Camões’ epic poem Os Lusiadas (The
Lusiads), has been central to a historical narrative that merges sea travel,
trade, conquest, knowledge, empire and nation. Yet sailing, I shall argue in
this article, was also about a variety of endeavours other than opening the way
to empire. Sailing could also be embarking as a stowaway, travelling immense
distances on improbable fishing boats, joining the crews of passing whalers,
being kidnapped ashore, enslaved, enduring the galleys or being sent off to
faraway plantations as labour. More often than not, sailing overseas was a way
to escape poverty, abuse, oppression, misery and distress. And that – sailing
away from their homes, looking for a better life, running from destitution –
was what many Portuguese men and women did over extended periods of
time. Their routes hardly corresponded to an imperial strategy for Portugal.
They often contradicted it.
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Portuguese migrants Hawaiian plantations
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Bastos, C. (2018). Portuguese in the cane: the racialization of labour in Hawaiian plantations. In Aboim, S., Granjo, P., Ramos, A. (Eds.), Changing Societies: Legacies and Challenges. Vol. 1. Ambiguous Inclusions: Inside Out, Inside In, pp. 65-96. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais
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Imprensa de Ciências Sociais