SLAVE RELATIONS IN THE PROVINCE OF MATO GROSSO AND THE REGION OF SANT’ANA DE PARANAIBA IN THE 19TH CENTURY

• Autor(a) principal: CAMARGO, Isabel Camilo de
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Patrimônio e Memória
• Texto Completo: http://pem.assis.unesp.br/index.php/pem/article/view/68
• topic: Slavery. Sant’Ana de Paranaíba. The Nineteenth century.; Escravidão. Sant’Ana de Paranaíba. Século XIX.

The introduction of Negroids (REALLY can’t use this term any more in the UK or US, even as an anthropological term in academia), enslaved peoples of African origin in the province of Mato Grosso, was due to the discovery of the mines of Cuiaba. The crisis in mining shifted the capital investment used in mining to other sectors, so Mato Grosso spent the early nineteenth century transforming its economy from mining to agriculture. During this period, a wave of migrants coming from Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo, reached the heart of Sant’Ana de Paranaíba, and, from there, spread to a large part of the old southeastern region of Mato Grosso, using largely enslaved manual labour for their invasions, settlements and economic development. This study seeks to understand slavery relations in Sant’Ana de Paranaíba and the role that the slave had in that society.