Demografia escrava e o impacto das leis abolicionistas no Espírito Santo (1850-1888)

Abstract

This work consists of a demographic study of Espírito Santo province
between 1850 and 1888. In it will be considered the socioeconomic
changes, responsible to a large extent for the changes in the of demographic
design of the central and southern regions of Espírito Santo.
The slavery laws that operated in the province in the sense of liberating
slaves little by little, preserving the process of gradual abolition politically
oriented in Brazil which eventually led to complete and unrestricted
abolition, will be analysed. The analysis begins in the 1850s, because
it is a period of changes in the economic, social and demographic of
Espírito Santo. With the emergence of the coffee culture, the province
reached the highest rate of slave labor in its history. Such an analysis is
critical to understanding subsequent years. From the peak of the slave population
(1850-1871), until theprogressivedecline, theimpactsofthelawsof
1871 (Law of the Free Belly) and of 1885 (Law of the Sexagenarians) in
the slave demography of the Espírito Santo were analyzed.