HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture 19: HISTORY 1DD3- The Challenge of Modernity in Latin America- Brazil Part 2
12 Oct 2016
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History 1dd3- the challenge of modernity in latin america: brazil. Waged workers slowly but surely took the place of slaves on many plantations, but enough planters resisted this development that major slave revolts and desertions erupted in the 1880s. Finally, in 1888 in an effort to finally end the chaotic situation in the countryside the central government finally abandoned slavery and declared it illegal. The end of slavery coincided with the so-called coffee boom. The (cid:272)offee pla(cid:374)ter elite"s e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) a(cid:374)d politi(cid:272)al po(cid:449)er therefore did (cid:374)ot di(cid:373)i(cid:374)ish; if anything it increased. Unfortunately for the freed slaves and growing number of immigrant labourers that worked the coffee plantations, the situation did not improve significantly. Coffee workers were landless, were poorly paid, and their children had no access to education. A vast underclass of poor workers rapidly emerged in brazil. The new constitutional arrangement was a compromise and allowed for a distinctive federalist system in brazil.
