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Subtitle: demografia, trabalho e relações sociais : Piauí, 1826-1888
By: Miridan Britto Knox.
Publisher: Fundação Cultural Monsenhor Chaves
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Teresina, PI
Language: por
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Blacks -- Brazil -- Piauí -- Social conditions.; Slavery -- Brazil -- Piauí -- History.; Brazil -- History -- Empire, 1822-1889.; Brazil -- Race relations.
Description: "Pioneering study of slave demography in Piauí, based on censuses, slave inventories, and official reports. Includes discussion of government-owned ranches (fazendas nacionais)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-332).
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidade de São Paulo.