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

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248085303316
• Autore: Stein Stanley J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1985
• ISBN: 0-691-02236-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 314 p., [10] leaves of plates ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 981/.53
• Soggetti: 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; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology; Latin America; Vassouras (Brazil) History 19th century; Vassouras (Brazil) Race relations History 19th century; Vassouras (Brazil) Economic conditions 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography (p. [301]-310) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.