{"product_id":"peasant-rebellion-in-a-slave-matthias-rhrig-assuno-9781032154749","title":"Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society: The Balaiada in Maranh?o, Brazil, 1800-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeasant Rebellion in a Slave Society\u003c\/em\u003e identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranh?o, Brazil, analyzing the special characteristics of the region that favored the development of a relatively independent peasantry within and around the cotton, rice, cassava, and cattle estates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book explores the demography of Maranh?o and patterns of land ownership and documents the rapid degradation of the environment by plantation-based export agriculture. The analysis of various types of coerced and free labor, the oligopolistic structure of the colonial economy, and the key determinants of class and status contextualizes the conflict potential in Maranh?o during the first half of the nineteenth century. The \"People of Color,\" as they called themselves, and enslaved workers from plantations rose against a White and conservative elite, claiming their constitutional rights or their freedom. The central government in Rio de Janeiro had to dispatch considerable amounts of money and troops to defeat the insurrection and subject the province again to imperial rule and enslaved workers and peasants to the plantocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis richly illustrated volume will be of interest to students and scholars working on slavery in the Americas and the Atlantic world, as well as Brazilian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthias R?hrig Assun??o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032154748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032154749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.14d","brand":"Matthias R?hrig Assun??o","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094273708287,"sku":"9781032154749","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34e9dcd0-c314-4fd4-9f78-30aac12c92cb.jpg?v=1724844194","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/peasant-rebellion-in-a-slave-matthias-rhrig-assuno-9781032154749","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}