Transition Toward Slavery
Changing Legal Practice Regarding Indians in Seventeenth-Century São Paulo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5789417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Muriel Nazzari (Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-155 |
| Publication date | 1992-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1006988 |
| OpenAlex | W2335734944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 19 |
A seventeenth-century inhabitant of São Paulo once remarked that Indians were "the most profitable property in this land." Legally, however, Indians were not property at all, for the crown explicitly prohibited their enslavement. During most of the seventeenth century, the settlers of São Paulo complied with the letter of the law and did not officially give their Indian servants any monetary value, and though they often sold them, the sales were known to be illegal and were not usually recorded in public documents, such as the documents used for this study, inventários , settlements of estates. By the end of the century, however, local judges were openly allowing the monetary appraisal of Indians and their subsequent sale was duly recorded in inventários and other court processes
Archaeology · Human settlement · Political science · Property (philosophy · Value (mathematics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Law
Blacks of the Land
De fragmentos a tramas
Caetana Says No
Political Centralization and Labour Coercion
Blacks of the Land
Cultivators, domestics, and Slaves
Vanishing Indians
Tame Indians,” “Wild Heathens,” and Settlers in Southern Bahia in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Indian Slavery
From Slaves to Índios
Capitalism and Slavery
Red gold
Historia Geral das Bandeiras Paulistas
Indian Labor and New World Plantations
Indian Labor and New World Plantations
The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil
The Bandeirantes. The Historical Role of the Brazilian Pathfinders
Attitudes of Colonial Powers Toward the American Indian
From Indian to slave
História da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil
The Bandeirantes. The Historical Role of the Brazilian Pathfinders
From Barter to Slavery
Quatro séculos de latifúndio
From Community to Metropolis, A Biography of São Paulo
História econômica do Brasil
Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |