Revisiting the economics and the demography of slavery in the nineteenth century Amazon: a study on the slaveholding and the slave family in Grão-Pará, Brazil (1801-1888)

• Grant number: 12/21188-5
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): April 01, 2013
• Effective date (End): September 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Demography - Historical Demography
• Principal researcher: José Flávio Motta
• Grantee: Daniel Souza Barroso
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims to nuance the understanding of slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil, through a serial analysis of two of the basic elements of economics and demographics of slavery - the ownership structure of slaves and the slave family - in Grão-Pará, along the nineteenth century. The research focuses on population dynamics and on the patterns of slaveholding, as well as the mechanisms of reproduction and the possible stability of the slave family in three regions of the province that experienced, each of them, distincts demo-economic processes: the Guajarina Zone that covered the capital, Belém, and its surroundings; the Lower Tocantins and Marajó. The project is supported into a kind of principal source (postmortem inventories) and other auxiliary sources (parish registers, wills, public deeds of sale, listas de matrícula, criminal and civil cases; censuses, reports of provincial administration, travelers reports etc.).

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BARROSO, Daniel Souza. Slavery in the Shadows: Slaveholding Patterns and Slave Family in Grão-Pará, Brazil (1810-1888). 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.