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Ibicaba Farm Records

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Ibicaba Farm, located in the countryside of São Paulo, played an outstanding role in Brazilian history. As early as the 1840’s, Farm Ibicaba introduced immigrant labor to work alongside slave labor in the coffee plantations-- an experiment which soon gained traction across other plantations in São Paulo. This caused some lasting consequences for the regional economy and society. The farm’s administrative documents record this big shift. This collection includes the farm’s archives from its second administration, when an immigrant family became the farm’s proprietor (1890-1970). By digitizing these unique and unexplored sources, the project fosters our understanding of labor relations in Latin American plantations and their socioeconomic, cultural and political dynamics.


Collection Overview

Alternative title
Labor, Livelihood,and Immigration in a Brazilian Plantation: the Archives of Ibicaba Farm (1847-1977)
Date Created
1847-1977

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Repository
Fazenda Ibicaba (Cordeirópolis, SP)
ARK
ark:/21198/z15t5c4z
MANIFEST URL
IIIF Manifest

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Rights Holder
Proprietors of Ibicaba farm: please refer to Mr. Theodoro Hayden Carvalhaes: Telephones 0055 19 3546 1012 or 0055 19 99825 6466; fazendaibicaba@fazendaibicaba.com.br

Notes

Description
This collection of ledgers and business records from the Ibicaba Farm documents the economic system of agricultural labor in Brazil that ultimately consolidated mass immigration. Starting in the 1840s, plantations in southwestern Brazil experiment with European immigrant labor co-existing with the enslaved black population. The Ibicaba Farm was a pioneer in such process and this collection tracks the development of this system. The digitized ledgers provide access to data relevant to labor history; economics of contractual design; sociology of immigration; political history of labor and immigration to Brazil; and cultural life in a plantation-based society following the transition from slavery. The content revolves around the farm’s administration, daily life, and economic production. The accounting books, for instance, include information about laborers’ daily activities, productivity under various contracts, workers’ remunerations, and livelihoods. Such content will present a part of history of both Brazilians and immigrant workers of various nationalities. This is especially valuable to any descendants of the farm workers who seek to explore their ancestry.

Keywords

Genre
ledgers (account books)
Subject Geographic
Brazil
Subjects
coffee--industry--Brazil
agricultural laborers
farm management
coffee plantation workers

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