Slavery’s Exile: Hercule Florence and the Sugar and Coffee Frontiers of Western São Paulo (1830 - 1879)

Authors

  • Rafael de Bivar Marquese Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas; Departamento de História

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02672016v24n0201

Abstract

The article studies the trajectory of the artist and inventor Antonie Hercule Romuald Florence (1804-1879) within the nineteenth century Brazilian slave society, trying to grasp the fundamentals of the "exile feeling" that marked his long experience in the São Paulo West. I first analyse Florence as an artist of the sugar and coffee slave plantations landscapes. The series of drawings and watercolors that he composed on Ibicaba and Cachoeira plantations allows us to observe how he understood the concrete processes of agrarian and environmental transformation of the slaveholding frontiers of São Paulo. In the second part, I analyze how Florence was turned into a coffee planter, when for family reasons he took charge of the management of a coffee plantation with thirty slaves in Campinas.

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Published

2016-08-01

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Section

Material Culture Studies

How to Cite

MARQUESE, Rafael de Bivar. Slavery’s Exile: Hercule Florence and the Sugar and Coffee Frontiers of Western São Paulo (1830 - 1879). Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 24, n. 2, p. 11–51, 2016. DOI: 10.1590/1982-02672016v24n0201. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/122772.. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.