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Immigrants on the Land

Coffee and Society in S

Thomas H. Holloway

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/2017
Pages: 236
Subject: History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807836132

DESCRIPTION

When slavery was abolished in 1880, Sao Paulo, Brazil, subsidized the immigration of workers from southern Europe and Japan. Faced with a worldwide coffee market and abundant land for expansion, native planters developed a package of incentives to attract workers, in contrast to the coercive labor systems historically common in other plantation systems. By the 1930s a clear majority of the small and medium-sized coffee farms were owned by first-generation immigrants.

Originally published 1980.

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