Submitted by Daniel Nogueira Gandra (daniel.n.gandra@gmail.com) on 2016-03-23T16:42:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 A Era Negra do Vale.pdf: 1969706 bytes, checksum: f476c8fbbb455ab3da0104abfdcaaa60 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rafael Aguiar (rafael.aguiar@fgv.br) on 2016-04-19T19:41:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 A Era Negra do Vale.pdf: 1969706 bytes, checksum: f476c8fbbb455ab3da0104abfdcaaa60 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2016-04-20T18:09:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 A Era Negra do Vale.pdf: 1969706 bytes, checksum: f476c8fbbb455ab3da0104abfdcaaa60 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-20T18:09:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 A Era Negra do Vale.pdf: 1969706 bytes, checksum: f476c8fbbb455ab3da0104abfdcaaa60 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-23 / This study analyzes the inventories of five of the richest coffee producers in the county of Piraí, in the Paraíba River Valley, between 1839 and 1848, summing almost two thousand slaves. In the economical bias, this study intends to demonstrate that the coffee economy produced enough surplus to allow its own expansion. The study also peruses the data about slave families in those inventories intending to demonstrate that slaves, who were mostly Africans, were active agents in the formation of their families, keeping a social life based on their memories and on the making of a new AfroBrazilian identity. / O presente trabalho analisa cinco inventários dos maiores produtores de café no município de Piraí, no Vale do Paraíba, entre os anos de 1839 e 1848, totalizando quase dois mil escravos. A partir de uma perspectiva de historia econômica pretende-se mostrar que a produção cafeeira permitia o acúmulo de capital e seu reinvestimento na expansão da monocultura. O estudo dos cativeiros também busca evidenciar que os cativos, africanos em sua maioria, eram agentes na formação de suas famílias, mantendo um espaço de sociabilidade baseado na memória e na construção de uma nova identidade afro-brasileira.