Scholarship 21/11525-3 - Café, Arquivos notariais - BV FAPESP
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Coffee, slavery and politics in the North Department of Saint-Domingue, 1776-1791

Grant number: 21/11525-3
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Master
Start date until: August 01, 2022
End date until: July 31, 2024
Field of knowledge:Humanities - History - History of America
Principal Investigator:Rafael de Bivar Marquese
Grantee:Juliana Cristina Zanezi
Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This master's degree project has proposes to investigate the slave coffee society of the french colony of Saint-Domingue, present Haiti, through the examination of transactions and contracts carried out by coffee investors, such as those recorded in notarial books between the 1770s and the early moments of the Haitian Revolution (1791). Given its importance for the history of Saint-Domingue, pre-revolutionary slave coffee growing is an undeniably relevant subject for understanding economic movements, politics, social and cultural aspects that took place both on this island within the framework of the french colonial system and, by extension, of the European capitalist world-economy. However, there is still no work in historiography that analyzes the role of coffee growing for the formation and empowerment of a cohesive class, as well as its construction of a political project for the colony along with the french-american enlightenment. Having diagnosed that coffee would be a determining factor in the composition of this scenario, this investigation aims to fill a historiographical gap in the history of Saint-Domingue, the history of the coffee culture and the history of American illustration. This research proposes starting from singular and localized social subjects, but guided by a broader intellectual and political framework, to examine the spaces of experience of actors and groups present in this scenario, to the opening and modifications in its horizons generated by the cultivation of coffee. Finally, we intend that the treatment with the documentation helps understand the process of formation and strengthening of an owner class, installed in the colony, imbued with ideals and demands of its own and that acted extensively in that tangible political field.

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