ISBN:
9780511572708
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxix, 298 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Latin American studies 85
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3/62/098151
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1800
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Geschichte 1720-1888
;
Geschichte
;
Sklaverei
;
Statistik
;
Slavery / Economic aspects / Brazil / Minas Gerais / History
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Slaves / Brazil / Minas Gerais / Statistics
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Gesellschaft
;
Sklaverei
;
Brasilien
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Minas Gerais (Brazil) / Population / History / 18th century
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Minas Gerais (Brazil) / Population / History / 19th century
;
Minas Gerais
;
Minas Gerais
;
Sklaverei
;
Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte 1720-1888
Abstract:
This 2000 book examines the demographic and economic history of slavery in Minas Gerais, the single largest slave-holding region in Brazil, from its settlement in the early eighteenth century until the abolition of Brazilian slavery in 1888. It utilizes the largest database ever assembled on a slave population in the Americas to reconstruct and analyse the unique history of slave labour in Minas Gerais. This slave population was remarkable in its ability to diversify economically as well as in increasing through natural reproduction, rather than through importation via the trans-atlantic slave trade. Minas Gerais therefore invites comparison with the patterns of slave reproduction found in the United States' South, heretofore considered unique. Extensively researched and finely documented, this book places the history of a unique Brazilian slave community into comparative perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
The mining-driven economy and its demise : from settlement to 1808 -- Economic transformations, 1808-1888 -- Demographic rhythms from settlement to the census of 1872 -- Demographic aspects of slavery, 1720-1888 -- Economic aspects of slavery, 1720-1888
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511572708
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