Captive Population Growth in Agro-Exporting Economy: Minas Gerais, in the Nineteenth Century

Authors

  • Jonis Freire Universidade Estadual de Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i166p245-283

Keywords:

Slave trade, Natural Reproduction, Minas Gerais, Nineteenth Century

Abstract

This article discusses the possibilities of maintenance and/or expansion of possession of captives, whether by means of trade or of natural reproduction in properties belonging to three families of captive owners of Zona da Mata Mineira - Dias Tostes, Paula Lima e Barbosa Lage. Through intercrossing of a variety of sources concerning those families, it is concluded that the two options for increasing the number of captives - natural reproduction and the slave trade - seem to have been not exclusive, but complementary. The choice of one or another has depended, above all, upon training period of the captives, the greater or lesser proximity to the transatlantic trade and also upon the economic reasoning undertaken by there in search for the best pattern for the maintenance and/or expansion of their slaves possessions.

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Author Biography

  • Jonis Freire, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
    Doutor em História pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas e Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Salgado de Oliveira

Published

2012-06-30

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How to Cite

FREIRE, Jonis. Captive Population Growth in Agro-Exporting Economy: Minas Gerais, in the Nineteenth Century. Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 166, p. 245–283, 2012. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i166p245-283. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/48644.. Acesso em: 20 jul. 2024.