A Bit of Land, Which They Call Roça
Slave Provision Grounds in the Bahian Recôncavo, 1780-1860
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2826686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B J Barickman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 649 |
| Publication date | 1994-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2517495 |
| OpenAlex | W4250274016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
T nH E history of plantation slavery in the Americas has in recent years been enriched by a growing number of studies that focus on provision grounds and gardensthe small plots of land where, working in their free time, slaves grew food crops for their own use. Studies from the West Indies and the southern United States have shown that granting slaves access to land was a common practice in many areas of slave-based agriculture; indeed, slaves frequently gained by custom the right to gardens or provision grounds and to the time needed to work in them. Slaves in some regions not only obtained a large share of their daily diet from their provision grounds, but also managed to harvest sizable surpluses for sale in local markets. Even where planters relied chiefly on rations rather than on provision grounds to feed their bondsmen, slaves often succeeded in selling produce from their plots. Thus, in several plantation regions, provision grounds and gardens allowed slaves to develop an extensive and even impressive range of independent production and marketing activities
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |