Demografia escrava e o impacto das leis abolicionistas no Espírito Santo (1850-1888)

• Autor(a) principal: Domingos Lago, Rafaela
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Almanack (Guarulhos)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/alm/article/view/13067

This work consists of a demographic study of Espírito Santo provincebetween 1850 and 1888. In it will be considered the socioeconomicchanges, responsible to a large extent for the changes in the of demographicdesign of the central and southern regions of Espírito Santo.The slavery laws that operated in the province in the sense of liberatingslaves little by little, preserving the process of gradual abolition politicallyoriented in Brazil which eventually led to complete and unrestrictedabolition, will be analysed. The analysis begins in the 1850s, becauseit is a period of changes in the economic, social and demographic ofEspírito Santo. With the emergence of the coffee culture, the provincereached the highest rate of slave labor in its history. Such an analysis iscritical to understanding subsequent years. From the peak of the slave population(1850-1871), until theprogressivedecline, theimpactsofthelawsof1871 (Law of the Free Belly) and of 1885 (Law of the Sexagenarians) inthe slave demography of the Espírito Santo were analyzed.