Coartações e alforrias nas Minas Gerais do século XVIII: as possibilidades de libertação escrava no principal centro colonial
Among the various kinds of alforria in Minas Gerais during the eighteenth century, one should be highlighted: the coartação. It consisted of parcelled payments, granting the absence of the coartado from the landlord's domain during subsequent years. This paper, thus, discusses this common pract...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade de São Paulo
1995-12-01
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| Series: | Revista de História |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/18768 |
| Summary: | Among the various kinds of alforria in Minas Gerais during the eighteenth century, one should be highlighted: the coartação. It consisted of parcelled payments, granting the absence of the coartado from the landlord's domain during subsequent years. This paper, thus, discusses this common practice in the Minas Gerais of the 1700s, but vaguely known to the Brazilian historiography on slavery. |
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| ISSN: | 0034-8309 2316-9141 |