Abstract
Abstract This article examines the connections between slavery and capitalism in the making of the nineteenth-century Brazilian slaveholding class through a theoretical debate of global history and World System perspective. The expansion of the coffee frontier in Parahyba Valley was connected to the world market after the Industrial Revolution, and there planters emerged unifying national slaveholders interests through state institutions. Therefore, the making of the Brazilian slaveholding class in the 1830s and its crisis after the 1860s was as much a part of the World System dynamic as the rise and decline of other ruling classes in the nineteenth century, like the slaveholding classes of Cuba and the southern United States and the bourgeoisies of Europe and the northern United States.
Highlights
The nineteenth century has long been defined as the century of the making of the bourgeoisie and of the bourgeoisie making in reference to the role of this ruling class in capitalist countries.[3]
Industrial economies based on wage labor were as much part of the capitalist world-economy as regions based on other forms of labor and ruled by other classes—such as the agricultural economies and slaveholders of Brazil and the southern United States
The history of the Brazilian slaveholding class can only be understood alongside the history of other nineteenth-century ruling classes, like the slaveholding classes of Cuba and the southern United States as well as the bourgeoisies of Western Europe and the northern United States.[4]
Summary
The nineteenth century has long been defined as the century of the making of the bourgeoisie and of the bourgeoisie making in reference to the role of this ruling class in capitalist countries.[3]. 2019 Capitalism, slavery and the making of brazilian slaveholding class: a theoretical debate on World-System perspective mic rationality behind the development of the plantation system in the nineteenth century In his recent scholarship, Sven Beckert has analyzed the global history of capitalism and the diverse forms of labor involved.[21]. In a similar edited volume, the publication of Escravidão e capitalismo histórico no século XIX: Cuba, Brasil e Estados Unidos presented the main results of the Second Slavery Network, which connected historians from different countries such as Rafael Marquese, Ricardo Salles, Edward Baptist, Dale Tomich, Robin Blackburn, and Jose Antonio Piqueras.[22] This article is the result of this institutional and theoretical agenda
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