“Escravidão e família escrava em uma economia de abastecimento.” Termo de Barbacena, século XIX.

Abstract

Among studies of slavery in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, some argue the thesis that regional economic development kept the slave labor on farms until the imposition of the abolition of slavery. In our research, we showed that the concentration of ownership and economic crisis of the captive region, articulated the legal changes instituted by the Rio Branco Law or Ventre Livre Law, was that, in fact, contributed to the preservation of slavery until 1888. In this sense, slave families played a key role in maintaining social order in an impoverished economy. It's what we try to demonstrate in this study through carefully analysis of the documents from Arquivo Histórico Municipal “Altair Savassi” during the period 1870 to 1888 in the jurisdiction of Barbacena, Minas Gerais.