The milestones of Beija-Flor farm: The strategies of affirmation of property in the midst of the implementation of the Land Law of 1850

Authors

  • Cristiano Luís Christillino UEPB/UFPE

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the strategies of farmers around the affirmation of property in the midst of the implementation of the Land Law of 1850. This analysis was developed on the basis of an investigation of land disputes involving the Azambuja and the Ribeiro families, in the town of Taquari, during the 1860s and 1870s. We seek to show that the impact of the Land Law on the transition to capitalism in Brazil through the consolidation of private property did not reach its initial project. The reason, on the one hand, is that the regularization of the land structure did not reach the expected scope and, on the other hand, the networks of social relations in which the farmers were inserted continued to be the most important factor for the affirmation of the possession of property.

Keywords: Brazilian Empire, family, Land Law.

Author Biography

Cristiano Luís Christillino, UEPB/UFPE

Possui Graduação em Historia pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (2001), Mestrado em História pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2004), Doutorado em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (2010) e Pós-Doutorado em História na Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2012). Atualmente é Professor Adjunto na Universidade Estadual da Paraíba e Professor Efetivo no Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Tem experiência de pesquisa na área de História, com ênfase em história agrária, história social e história política do Brasil e da América Platina no século XIX. Coordena o Grupo de Trabalho Terra na ANPUH/PB.

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Published

2016-03-15

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2016): January/April

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