Uma sociedade em formação: terra, população e escravidão na Mata mineira – Mar de Espanha, primeira metade do século XIX

Abstract

This research’s theme is the formation of coffee growing in Minas Gerais. We primarily use the List of Inhabitants of 1831, post-mortem inventories and the Parish Register of Lands of Mar de Espanha. Through this documentation, we conduct a socio-demographic analysis of Mar de Espanha’s population and investigate the slaveholdings and land ownership in the area. We focus on the first half of the nineteenth century, known as the coffee production assembly period in Minas Gerais’ Zona da Mata, before the consolidation of the coffee agroexport system in the area.