Title Vassouras, a Brazilian coffee county, 1850-1900 : the roles of planter and slave in a plantation society / Stanley J. Stein

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1985

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 314 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations Series Harvard historical studies ; v. 69. Contents Part One. From wilderness to plantation -- Introduction -- Part Two. The economy of prosperity -- Plantations in the fifties and sixties -- Plantation labor -- Marketing, provisioning and transport -- Part Three. Plantation society -- The free -- Planter and slave -- Patterns of living -- Religion and festivities on the plantation -- Part Four. Decline -- The crumbling economy -- Abolition and aftermath -- Epilogue -- The legacy -- Appendix -- Glossary Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index Notes Print version record Subject Coffee -- Brazil -- Vassouras Plantation life -- Brazil -- Vassouras -- History Slavery -- Brazil -- Vassouras Enslaved persons -- Brazil -- Vassouras -- Social conditions Coffee Plantation life Slavery Enslaved persons -- Social conditions Brazil -- Vassouras Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0691022364 9780691022369 0691076944 9780691076942

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