Ouro negro: café e escravos na formação da classe senhorial em um município do Vale do Paraíba Fluminense Barra Mansa no século XIX

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Carneiro, André Rocha
• Orientador(a): Santos, Edna Maria dos
• Banca de defesa: Lemos, Maria Teresa Toríbio Brittes , Miranda, Maria Geralda de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em História
• Departamento: Centro de Ciências Sociais::Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Classe senhorial; Café; Escravos; Vale do Paraíba Fluminense; Barra Mansa; Império; Barra Mansa (RJ) História Século XIX; Escravidão - Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Senhorial class; Coffe; Slaves; Vale do Paraíba Fluminense; Barra Mansa; Empire
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DO BRASIL::HISTORIA DO BRASIL IMPERIO
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13128

The coffee was the key product to provide greater economic stability to the Brazilian Empire, also favoring political stability. The concentration of production in the Vale do Paraíba Fluminense, in the nineteenth century, was an important factor in this region to form a social class , the senhorial class, which formed the basis of political support to the formation of the Brazilian imperial state. It was also a determining factor for the increased use of slave labor in a moment that this was already in crisis, together with the crisis of colonialism, which led to the independence process in Brazil. This paper demonstrates how coffee production and the use of slave labor were instrumental in the formation of the planter class in the first half of the nineteenth century, in the Vale do Paraíba Fluminense, especially in one of its municipalities Barra Mansa, this class who served political and social support for the Second Empire. We will also see how the dialectical relations between the senhorial class and their slaves were crucial to the process of slave emancipation that permeated throughout the imperial period.