Summary
13 Introduction to the first edition
25 Preface to the second edition
Part I
Economic aspects of the slave system disintegration
61 Chapter 1
Coffee expansion and slave labor
First coffee plantations and replacement of cane fields by coffee plantations
Predominance of slave labor
Participation of free worker
Vicissitudes of trafficking
Difficulties in repressing trafficking
Slave trade: buying and selling systems
Slave concentration in the coffee region
107 Chapter 2
First experiences with free labor
Colonial nucleus policy failure
The partnership
System crisis
The owners point of view
The results of the investigations
The contradictions of the system
The partnership system end
Replacement by salary system
Experiences with colonization in Minas Gerais
Colonization in Rio de Janeiro
165 Chapter 3
Continuity of the slave system
Difficulties in the transition to free labor
Revaluation of the slave force
Genre scarcity
Attempt at Chinese Immigration
Free labor progress
Slave system persistence in the coffee region
195 Chapter 4
Transformations in the coffee economy
Means of communication and transport
Improvement in coffee processing methods
New conditions for immigration
245 Chapter 5
Decadence of the slave system
Restrictions on interprovincial trafficking
263 Part I Annex
Part II
Living conditions in coffee regions
271 Chapter 1
Aspects of slave life in urban and rural areas
The urban slave
The rural slave
325 Chapter 2
Relations between masters and slaves
White and black
Disciplinary systems
347 Chapter 3
The protest of the enslaved
Part III
Slavery and ideologies
379 Chapter 1
Slavery and antislavery ideas
Antislavery and proslavery
From antislavery to abolitionists
429 Chapter 2
Development of an antislavery conscience
The awakening
The collective awareness
475 Chapter 3
The abolition
The abolition agents
The outcome
Repercussions of abolition
503 Conclusions
515 Handwritten sources
517 Quoted print sources
525 Books and Articles
539 Bibliographic references