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Vassouras, a Brazilian coffee county, 1850-1900 the roles of planter and slave in a plantation society
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Stanley J. Stein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1985
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 314 p., [10] leaves of plates ) ill.
- ISBNs
- 9780691022369, 0691022364, 9780691076942, 0691076944
- OCLC
- ocm70781658
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliography (p. [301]-310) and index.
- English
- 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
Subjects
- Slavery -- Brazil -- Vassouras.
- Enslaved persons -- Brazil -- Vassouras -- Social conditions.
- Plantation life -- Brazil -- Vassouras -- History.
- Coffee -- Brazil -- Vassouras.
- Plantation life -- History -- 19th century -- Brazil -- Vassouras
- Slavery -- History -- 19th century -- Vassouras -- Brazil
- Plantation owners -- History -- 19th century -- Vassouras -- Brazil
- Enslaved persons -- Brazil -- Vassouras -- History -- 19th century.
- Coffee growers -- History -- 19th century -- Vassouras -- Brazil
- Coffee -- History -- 19th century -- Vassouras -- Brazil
- Social change -- History -- 19th century -- Brazil -- Vassouras
- Vassouras (Brazil) -- History -- 19th century.
- Vassouras (Brazil) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
- Vassouras (Brazil) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.