Escravos e senhores no Brasil no início do século XIX: São Paulo em 1829

• Autor(a) principal: Luna, Francisco Vidal
• Data de Publicação: 1990
• Outros Autores: Klein, Herbert S.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Econômicos (São Paulo)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/ee/article/view/158282
• topic: Escravismo; Demografia escrava; Posse de escravos; Casamento de escravos; Slavery; Slave demography; Slave holding/ownership; Slave marriages

Through an analysis of the nominal manuscript listings, it was our proposal to make a thorough study of the slave population and its owners. We have selected three communities in the province of Sao Paulo of 1829: Mogi das Cruzes, Itu and the city of Sao Paulo. Relevant variables, such as sex, age, origin, marital status, the occupation of the slave owner, as well as the structure of slave ownership, have been taken into consideration. We have attempted to compare our results with those obtained in other research work in Brazil, as well as with evidence of other slave regimes in the Americas, mainly those in the United States and in the West Indies. The region analyzed also revealed a rather uncommon pattern, even by Brazilian standards, in the high marriage rates among its slaves; most probably many of these marriages were performed legally. It is possible that in no other slave regime in the Americas was such a high ratio of legally married slaves to be found; moreover, few other Brazilian provinces experienced such a high incidence of slave marriages, comparable with that of their free population.