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Publication Date
3-2-2009
Description
Photographs of a Nineteenth century coffee plantation family. Coffee was initially planted in Rio de Janeiro and southern Minas Gerais, especially in the Paraiba river valley, and depended on slave labor. When the slavery economy went into crisis in the mid-Nineteenth century, planters in Sao Paulo encouraged European immigration, especially Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese and Italian workers, who arrived in large numbers. Between 1870 and 1920 over five million immigrants came to Brazil, half of which settled in the state of Sao Paulo as coffee plantation laborers.Fotografias de uma família fazendeira do século dezenove. O café foi inicialmente plantado no Rio de Janeiro e sul de Minas Gerais, especilamente no vale do rio ParaJba, dependendo do trabalho escravo. Quando a economia dos escravos entrou em crise na metade do século dezenove, os plantadores de São Paulo encorajaram a imigração européia, especialmente trabalhadores portugueses, espanhóis, japoneses e italianos, os quais chegaram em grandes números. Entre 1870 e 1920 mais de cinco milhões de imigrantes vieram ao Brasil, dos quais a metade se instalaram como trabalhadores na plantação de café, no estado de São Paulo.
Publisher
Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico
Rights
Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1991
Keywords
Brazil: Sao Paulo
