Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil Book contents
- Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Currency and Language
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I Colonization’s Statecraft
- 1 Peopling as Strategy
- 2 Marching to the Homestead
- Part II Colonization Companies and the Colono Trade
- Part III Disentangling Companies and State
- Part IV Peopling the Country of the Future
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
2 - Marching to the Homestead
Colonization in the Crosshairs of the Long Post-Independence
from Part I - Colonization’s Statecraft
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2024
- Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Currency and Language
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I Colonization’s Statecraft
- 1 Peopling as Strategy
- 2 Marching to the Homestead
- Part II Colonization Companies and the Colono Trade
- Part III Disentangling Companies and State
- Part IV Peopling the Country of the Future
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
Summary
Little appeared to change with Brazilian independence regarding the establishment of colonies. The new imperial government continued to sponsor the settlements established during the Joanine years and kept signing on agricultural workers in Europe for similar endeavors. While colonies grew in economic and demographic terms, many of them did so at the expense of enslaved Africans and their descendants in direct contravention of their founding principles. Additionally, migrants contracted in Europe as field hands were in fact mercenary soldiers for Pedro I’s forces. This chapter explores how colonization informed a foundational rift in Brazilian politics. As constitutional order struggled to establish itself, colonization pitted an entrenched executive with imperial ambitions and an emergent legislature trying to assert itself.
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- Peopling for Profit in Imperial BrazilDirected Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization, pp. 52 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024