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Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900. the Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society

Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900. the Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society

Paperback

Series: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Book 69

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSouth American History

ISBN10: 0691022364
ISBN13: 9780691022369
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Jan 21 1986
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is a now classic social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. Local society, the free-planters, professionals, tradesmen, and lower class citizens-and the slaves, are viewed through the routine of plantation life. The author shows how abolition, erosion, and bankruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.

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South American History