Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais

2001 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kuznesof
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Mining Region

scholarly journals Reforçar a identidade e a autoridade: as casas de courás libertos em Vila Rica e Mariana no século XVIII

Afro-Ásia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moacir Rodrigo De Castro Maia
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Gold Mines ◽  
African People ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Freed People

<p>O artigo acompanha um grupo de libertos africanos, nomeado nas fontes portuguesas como courás, couranos ou variantes, para entender como constituíram suas casas em dois importantes núcleos urbanos da capitania de Minas Gerais ao longo do século XVIII. A economia do ouro possibilitou uma significativa posse de trabalhadores escravos para alguns desses senhores negros. O estudo desvenda a origem desses escravizados e como muitos desses lares mantiveram uma estreita relação com o passado africano desse grupo. De forma comparativa e também conectada, percebeu-se como as duas povoações vizinhas possuíam grupos de africanos forros que, além da alforria, adquiriram bens: casas, estabelecimentos comerciais, minas de ouro e, principalmente, trabalhadores escravos da mesma identidade étnica.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave: </strong>diáspora africana | libertos | escravidão | identidade étnica | posse escravista.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Abstract:</em></strong></p><p><em>This article discusses a group of freed African people identified in Portuguese sources as Courás or Couranos, seeking to understand how they formed their homes in two important urban centers of the Captaincy of Minas Gerais during the eighteenth century. The gold-mining economy facilitated the acquisition of significant numbers of enslaved laborers by black masters. The study examines the origin of these enslaved people and the way in which many of these households maintained a close relationship with their African past. Usinga comparative and connected approach, this paper shows that in both of the two neighboring towns there were enclaves of freed Africans who, in addition to obtaining manumission, also acquired various forms of property, including  houses, commercial establishments, gold mines and especially, enslaved people of the same ethnic identity</em>.</p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong>african diaspora | african freed people | slavery | ethnic identity | slave ownership.</p><p><strong><br /></strong></p>

scholarly journals Geoenvironmental Study of Gold Mining Tailings in a Circular Economy Context: Santa Barbara, Minas Gerais, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Lemos ◽  
T. Valente ◽  
A. P. Marinho-Reis ◽  
R. Fonsceca ◽  
J. M. Dumont ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Mining Tailings

scholarly journals Seizures among the Participants of the Inconfidência Mineira as a Source for Research on the History of Books and Libraries (1789)

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Figueiredo Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Books ◽  
Separatist Movement

ABSTRACT This article discusses the seizure of assets owned by the participants in the Minas Gerais State separatist movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira in Brazil, and whether these seizure records may serve as a source for research on the history of books, libraries, and general reading habits in Minas Gerais in the second half of the eighteenth century. First, the historical context of books and the intersection between the seizures and the region’s literary culture were examined. The possibilities and the limits to the use of these seizure records in the study of private libraries is also analyzed. Finally, some of the conspirators’ reading habits, which were influenced by the revolutionary ideas that circulated Europe and North America, are presented.

scholarly journals La Economía de Santafé de Bogotá En 1810

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salomón Kalmanovitz ◽  
Edwin López Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
New Granada ◽  
Important Impact ◽  
Political Center ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Handicraft Production ◽  
Strong Impulse

AbstractThis essay shows that the growth of the economy of New Granada during the Eighteenth Century made an important impact on its political center, Santafé de Bogota, at least until 1808. Such prosperity was the result of a process of specialization and division of labor between different regions of the new kingdom, derived from the dynamics of gold mining that gave a strong impulse to Santafé's economy as a trade center for the handicraft production of Eastern Colombia and the fertile savanna surrounding it, which was a net food exporter. The Mint established in Santafé, which was a de facto monopoly, attracted merchants and miners who established there a center for the exchange of gold dust for coin.

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