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Vassouras, a Brazilian coffee county, 1850-1900 : the roles of planter and slave in a plantation society / Stanley J. Stein.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stein, Stanley J.
Contributor:
American Council of Learned Societies.
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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