Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1986
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- Title
- Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society
- Author
- Stein, Stanley J.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691022364
- ISBN 13
- 9780691022369
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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