Escravos e libertos nas Minas Gerais do século XVIII
Subtitle: estratégias de resistência através dos testamentos
By: Eduardo França Paiva.
Edition: 1a. ed.
Series: Selo universidade ;; 43.; História; Selo universidade ;; 43.; Selo universidade.
Publisher: Annablume; Faculdades Integradas Newton Paiva
Published: 1995
Place of publication: São Paulo, SP, Brasil
Language: por
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Slaves -- Emancipation -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.; Freedmen -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.; Slavery -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.; Slave insurrections -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- Sources.
Description: "Uses approximately 400 wills of female freed slaves to provide insight into 18th-century Minas Gerais society. Sees evidence of resistance to enslavement through the adoption of some the practices of the master class, which ultimately allowed slaves to gain freedom, and thus tempered the inherent violence of slavery"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-240).
Originally presented as the author's thesis (master's)--Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 1993.