Sociedade e cultura escravistas como obstáculos ao desenvolvimento econômico: notas sobre o Brasil oiticentista
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Slave society and culture, underdevelopment, attempts at industrializationAbstract
The time has como for historians of Brazilian economic history to deal with the cultural issues posed by more than 300 year of slavery and underdevelopment. To continue insisting that the failure of the Brazilian economy to "modernize" before emancipation lay in the poor quality of slave labor perse, is to ignore the fact that bondsmen were perfectly capable of adapting to technological advances and complex workplace organization, as shown in examples taken from nineteenth-century Brazilian history. It will be argued that certain attitudes inherent to Brazilian slave society, particularly the aversion to work inculcated in all segments of the free population, constituted serious restraints to economic modernization up to the final decades of the nineteenth century.
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