Dutra's World Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

Name: Dutra's World Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
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ISBN: 9780826334114

ISBN-10: 0826334113

ISBN-13: 9780826334114

Edition: 2004

Authors: Zephyr L. Frank, Lyman L. Johnson

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The relation of slavery to Brazil's economic and social history has long fascinated researchers. Zephyr Frank focuses on nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, where almost half of the city's residents laboured as slaves of diverse owners in a complex urban setting. Slavery persisted in the Brazilian city, in part, because it was entrenched among upwardly mobile entrepreneurs who hired their slaves out for wages, employed them in family businesses, and bought and sold them for profit. Changes in the institution of slavery and the economy of the city gradually limited access to slaves, constricting avenues of social mobility for slaveholders and transforming the lives of the slaves themselves.…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 10/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.03" wide x 8.99" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



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Introduction



Economy and social structure in Rio de Janeiro, circa 1820



Dutra's world, circa 1849



Social structure in Rio de Janeiro, 1850s and beyond



Pathways to wealth in Rio de Janeiro, 1815-1860



Death and dying



Family and gender



Conclusion



Sampling procedures and sensitivity analysis