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| Author(s): |
Juliana Cristina Zanezi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2024-12-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Rafael de Bivar Marquese;
Leonardo Marques;
João Paulo Garrido Pimenta;
Waldomiro Lourenço da Silva Junior
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| Advisor: | Rafael de Bivar Marquese |
| Abstract | |
This Master\'s Thesis presents an investigation of the slave coffee economy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, through the examination of transactions acts and contracts carried out by coffee planters, as registered in the Notarial records between the 1770s and the beginnings of the Haitian Revolution (1791). Combined with an analysis of other sort of documents and political publications by the authors of the so-called Franco-American Enlightenment, the Thesis aims to comprehend the formation of a local elite, as well as the dynamics of the struggle between whites and non-whites enriched and empowered by the coffee business. Therefore, starting from singular and localized social subjects, guided by a broader intellectual and political framework, this research investigates the importance of coffee cultivation, both economically and politically, seeking to understand the spaces of experience of agents and groups present in a Franco-American scenario, a context that allowed the flourishing and strengthening of a group of coffee growers installed in the colony, imbued with their own ideals and demands. These men made their own readings of the Enlightenment debates and acted extensively in their political platform aiming to change their horizons of expectations. Given its importance in the history of Saint-Domingue, pre-revolutionary slave coffee cultivation is an undeniably relevant subject to understand the economic movements, both on the island and in the framework of the French colonial system and, by extension, of the European world-economy (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 21/11525-3 - Coffee, slavery and politics in the North Department of Saint-Domingue, 1776-1791 |
| Grantee: | Juliana Cristina Zanezi |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |