Revisiting the Casa-grande: Plantation and Cane-Farming Households in Early Nineteenth-Century Bahia
Nicolau Parés, Tercina and José Vergolino, Martha Few, Tracy Alexander, Donna Guy, Suzanne Wilson, Lyman Johnson, and Miridan Britto Falci, as well as the two anonymous HAHR readers, for their comments, suggestions, and help in locating sources. In the text and notes, percentages, including those taken from other authors, have been rounded to the nearest full percent. On the terms cane-farming and cane farmer, see n. 15 below. The following abbreviations are used: APEB, Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia, Salvador; SH, Seção Histórica; SJ, Seção Judiciária; IT, Inventários e testamentos; inv., inventory; RET, Registros eclesiásticos de terrras; reg(s)., registro(s); ARC, Arquivo Regional da Cachoeira, Cachoeira, Bahia. 1. John Manuel Monteiro, review of Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580–1822, by Alida C. Metcalf, Hispanic American Historical Review 74, no. 1 (1994): 150; Gilberto Freyre, Casa-grande & senzala: Formação da família brasileira sob o regime de economia patriarcal, 43rd ed. (1933; Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2001); Freyre, Sobrados e mucambos: Decadência do patriarcado rural e desenvolvimento do urbano, 12th ed. (1936; Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2000); and Freyre, Ordem e progresso, 5th ed. (1959; Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2000). Monteiro (p. 150) also asserts that, outside “the limited circle of family historians,” Freyre currently holds little relevance for Brazilian scholars. Yet, all of Freyre’s