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Vassouras, a Brazilian coffee county, 1850-1900 : the roles of planter and slave in a plantation society / Stanley J. Stein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Stanley J.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Brazil--Vassouras.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Brazil--Vassouras--Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons.
- Plantation life--Brazil--Vassouras--History.
- Plantation life.
- Coffee--Brazil--Vassouras.
- Coffee.
- Plantation life--History--19th century--Brazil--Vassouras.
- Slavery--History--19th century--Vassouras--Brazil.
- Plantation owners--History--19th century--Vassouras--Brazil.
- Plantation owners.
- Enslaved persons--Brazil--Vassouras--History--19th century.
- Coffee growers--History--19th century--Vassouras--Brazil.
- Coffee growers.
- Coffee--History--19th century--Vassouras--Brazil.
- Social change--History--19th century--Brazil--Vassouras.
- Social change.
- Vassouras (Brazil)--History--19th century.
- Vassouras (Brazil).
- Vassouras (Brazil)--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Vassouras (Brazil)--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 314 p., [10] leaves of plates ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1985.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Part One. From wilderness to plantation
- Introduction
- Part Two. The economy of prosperity
- Plantations in the fifties and sixties
- Plantation labor
- Marketing, provisioning and transport
- Part Three. Plantation society
- The free
- Planter and slave
- Patterns of living
- Religion and festivities on the plantation
- Part Four. Decline
- The crumbling economy
- Abolition and aftermath
- Epilogue
- The legacy
- Appendix
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliography (p. [301]-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691022369
- 0691022364
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb02800 hdl
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