A lei de terras (1850) e a abolição da escravidão: capitalismo e força de trabalho no Brasil do século XIX

Authors

  • Regina Maria d'Aquino Fonseca Gadelha PUC/SP; FEA; Departamento de História

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i120p153-162

Keywords:

land value, labor force, transition to free labor, immigration and land policy

Abstract

This article studies from a specific marxist perspective (Francisco de Oliveira, Meillassoux, etc.) an aspect of capitalist development in Brazil which was the late mercantilization of land after abolition. The abolition of the slave trade and the land decree of 1850 are suggested parameters for the elites'project for a gradual transition to free labor. Different aspects of land policy are described as tending towards keeping ex-slaves as workers away from access to small properties and contributing towards concentration of land ownership as part of the interest of dominant classes in maintaining a cheap labor force. After abolition, prices in land went up while Italian immigrants were imported to keep the monopoly of land and of the means of subsistence in the hands of the rural coffee elite.

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Published

1989-07-30

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How to Cite

GADELHA, Regina Maria d'Aquino Fonseca. A lei de terras (1850) e a abolição da escravidão: capitalismo e força de trabalho no Brasil do século XIX . Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 120, p. 153–162, 1989. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i120p153-162. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/18599.. Acesso em: 28 jun. 2024.