Blacks of the land : Indian slavery, settler society, and the Portuguese colonial enterprise in South America / John M. Monteiro ; edited and translated by James Woodard, Barbara Weinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monteiro, John M. (John Manuel), 1956- author.

Contributor:

Weinstein, Barbara, translator, editor.

Woodard, James P., 1975- translator, editor.

Series:

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 112.

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 112

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Brazil--São Paulo (State)--History.

Indians of South America.

Enslaved Indians--Brazil--São Paulo (State).

Enslaved Indians.

Slavery--Brazil--São Paulo (State).

Slavery.

Bandeiras.

History.

Brazil--São Paulo (State).

Bandeiras--Brazil--São Paulo (State).

São Paulo (Brazil : State)--Economic conditions.

São Paulo (Brazil : State).

Economic history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 254 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Beginning in the 1490s in the Caribbean, and through the slow demise of native slavery in North and South America over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, millions of Amerindians were subjected to enslavement, captivity, and forced labor. Indian slavery was practiced across the Americas, at one point in time or another, in jurisdictions claimed by every European power that engaged in New World colonialism. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, Scottish, French, and Russian colonists held native Americans as slaves, exerting their mastery over them and dealing in them as chattel. In parts of the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, native slavery survived the ending of European colonial claims and the formation of independent nation-states, lasting well into the nineteenth century. By that point, however, the numbers of Amerindians held as slaves in Brazil and the United States were tiny compared to the masses of African and Afro-American captives that made up the absolute majority of the populations of the two country's plantation zones. Indian slavery thus seemed a small thing-economically, socially, demographically-when set alongside African and Afro-American slavery, on the ascent through the first half of the new century in Brazil and the southern United States alike. Until recently-and for many good reasons-scholarly attention to Indian slavery has been similarly dwarfed by the volume of care and attention paid to African and Afro- American slavery in the Americas. Over the last fifteen years, however, the study of native slavery has undergone a remarkable boom among North American historians"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The transformation of indigenous São Paulo in the sixteenth century

Backcountry incursions and the expansion of the labor force

The granary of Brazil

The regime of personal service

Masters and Indians

The roots of rural poverty

The final years of Indian slavery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Electronic version : Monteiro, John M. Blacks of the land.

ISBN:

9781107114678

1107114675

9781107535183

1107535182

OCLC:

1048659189

Publisher Number:

40028697375