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BRAZILIAN CENSUS SOURCES AND OWNERSHIP OF SLAVES IN THE 1870S
Fecha
2011Registro en:
REVISTA DE INDIAS, v.71, n.251, p.231-257, 2011
0034-8341
10.3989/revindias.2011.009
Autor
MARCONDES, Renato Leite
Institución
Resumen
There exists a significant group of sources of a census nature for the study of slavery in the 1870s. These sources derive mainly from the registration of slaves that was established by the Law of the Free Womb of 1871. In this article, we discuss the different ways of presenting registration information. We analyze a sample of the registered slave population, including 69 towns from different parts of the country that total a little over 112,000 slaves and 25, 000 slave holders. In addition to characterizing the demographic profile of the slaves that make up the sample, we verify the ownership of slaves.