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Vassouras a Brazilian coffee county, 1850-1900 : the roles of planter and slave in a plantation society

Title: Vassouras [electronic resource] : a Brazilian coffee county, 1850-1900 : the roles of planter and slave in a plantation society / Stanley J. Stein.
Author: Stein, Stanley J.
Publication: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]

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Description

1 online resource (xxii, 314 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map.

Uniform Title

Vassouras (Online)

Alternative Title

Vassouras (Online)
Vassouras, a Brazilian coffee county, 1850-1900

Subject

Plantation life > Brazil > Vassouras > History > 19th century
Slavery > Brazil > Vassouras > History > 19th century
Plantation owners > Brazil > Vassouras > History > 19th century
Enslaved persons > Brazil > Vassouras > History > 19th century
Coffee growers > Brazil > Vassouras > History > 19th century
Coffee > Brazil > Vassouras > History > 19th century
Social change > Brazil > Vassouras > History > 19th century
Vassouras (Brazil) > History > 19th century
Vassouras (Brazil) > Race relations > History > 19th century
Vassouras (Brazil) > Economic conditions > 19th century

Note

Originally published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1957.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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