Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio De Janeiro (Dialogos (Paperback))

by Z.L.Frank (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $38.64

  The relation of slavery to Brazil's economic and social history has long fascinated researchers. Zephyr Frank focuses on nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, where almost half of the city's residents laboured as slaves of diverse owners in a complex urban setting. Frank uses the experiences of one person, Antonio Jose Dutra, as an example of a middling urban slaveholder.