Dilemas da historiografia paulista: a repartição da riqueza no município de Taubaté no início do século XIX

Abstract

This paper focus the distribution of wealth on the Taubaté’s county economy at the beginning of the 19th century. Despite the countys weak economic integration in the foreign  market, the distribution of wealth followed  the same patterns as the areas that were strongly integrated in the objectifs of modern colonization. This was due to the link of Taubaté’s economy to the export economy. For a long time, the Taubaté’s county economy worked as supply center for the exporting regions. In Taubaté, side by side with the large land slaves owners who controlled a large part of the income and wealth, we found a significant portion of the population, the aggregates (agregados), destitute of  belongs and living by favor on the others land. Even among the land owners there was a class of small land owners with limited resources, who had no slaves and developed an agriculture of self-subsistence.