A pia e a cruz : a demografia dos trabalhadores escravizados em Herval e Pelotas (1840-59)

Abstract

The demographics of the slave laborers of the cities of Pelotas and Herval was investigated based on the records of baptism and death of the decades of the Churches 1840-50 St. John the Baptist and St. Francis of Paula filed in the Curia Metropolitana de Pelotas. The geographic areas covered were important regions for the economic development of the province and their integration into the Imperial stage. Herval was characterized by cattle, supplying the jerkingand using the worker feitorizado read in their pastoral farms. Pelotas was over the 19th century was an important center charqueadores and developed its economy, society, culture and art grounded in labor-slave labor. The captives were mainly engaged in the salting of meat in thesummer months (October / November to April / May) and the off-season the beef jerky were employed in construction, so that the four groups had brick ranches and were homeowners in the city. The chosen chronological clipping for the analysis of the registers is related with the alterations that the servile system suffered in years 1840 and 50 in Imperial Brazil and its consequences in the Province of the Rio Grande of They are Peter of the South. The law Eusébio de Queirós of 4 of September of 1850 findou with the transtlântico commerce of captives and the Rio Grande Do Sul acquired from 1851 the characteristic of exporter of servile man power. The sink and the cross looked for to argue if south-river-grandense had modifications in the enslaved population, giving emphasis to the cities of Herval, pastoral, and Pelotas, charqueador