Everything about Fazenda totally explained
Fazenda is a Portuguese word for '
farm', but is used in the English language for the
coffee estates that spread within the interior of
Brazil between 1840 and 1896, which created major export commodities for Brazilian trade, but also led to intensification of slavery in Brazil.
Creation of fazendas
In the mid 1800s,
Brazil had been undergoing an economic transformation brought about by a new export crop:
coffee. Coffee provided a new basis for agricultural expansion in southern Brazil. In the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and then São Paulo, coffee estates, or
fazendas, began to spread toward the interior as new lands were opened. By 1840, coffee made up more than 40% of Brazil's
exports, and by 1880, that figure reached 60%.
Negative effects of the fazendas
Along with the expansion of coffee growing came an intensification of
slavery in Brazil, as the country's primary form of labor. More than 1.4 million Africans were forced to be slaves in Brazil in the last 50 years of the slave trade, and even after the
trans-Atlantic slave trade ended, slavery continued until 1888.
Positive effects of the fazendas
Because of the increased profit from the trade of coffee, the years after 1850 saw considerable growth and prosperity in Brazil.
Dom Pedro II proved to be an enlightened man of middle-class habits who was anxious to reign over a tranquil and progressive nation, even if that tranquility was based on slave labor.
Railroads,
steamships and the
telegraph were added in Brazil, all paid for by the money the fazendas supplied from their coffee crop. In growing cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, merchants, lawyers, a middle class, and an urban working class grew, once again paid for by the money coming from the fazendas.
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