Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900: The Roles Of Planter And Slave In A Plantation Society

Princeton University Press (Jan 01, 1986)

9780691022369

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336 pages | 155 x 234 mm

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Dewey 981.53

LC Classification F2651.V3 .S7 1985

LC Control No. 85042659

Genre

Amer Hist Colonial
Black Hist Slavery

Subject

Coffee - History - Brazil
Plantation Life - History - Brazil
Slavery - History - Brazil
Vassouras (Brazil) - History

Plot

This book is a now classic social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. Local society, the free-planters, professionals, tradesmen, and lower class citizens-and the slaves, are viewed through the routine of plantation life. The author shows how abolition, erosion, and bankruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.

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