CLAS Readings | K-14 Global Fellowship Program

Cost of Slavery in Brazil
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-slavery-brazil-miriam-grobman/
  - In this LinkedIn article, the author reviews the book “Slavery” (2019) from the Brazilian journalist and historian Laurentino Gomes and summarizes the main data about the developments of the history of servitude in Brazil, which was officially implemented in the sixteenth century and endured until the end of the nineteenth. The first volume of the book is focused on the process of implementation of slavery in this country by the Portuguese Empire, which slaved mainly African peoples but, also, indigenous people from the area. The author also highlights the social and economic impacts of the abolition process in the nineteenth century. Racism, lack of educational and professional opportunities for African descendants and the fight for social justice as a result of the slavery/abolition process are addressed in this article.

The African Contribution to Brazilian Portuguese: To what extent did the speech of slaves influence the mother tongue? by Fernanda Ferreira (2002)
- https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=br_rev
  - In this short article, the author Fernanda Ferreira (2002) discusses the topic of the linguistic influence from African peoples slaved by the Portuguese Empire on Brazilian Portuguese. The author hypothesizes that such linguistic impact on Brazilian Portuguese probably stems from seven linguistic groups (including Mande, Kru, Gru, Kwa and Bantu) who arrived in Brazil between the sixteenth and nineteenth hundred. She utilizes demographic and ethnographic data to develop that hypothesis and presents conclusions regarding the topic and indicates possible paths for future research in the same field.

The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889
- https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Economic_and_Social_History_of_Brazi.html?id=jtfSAgAAQBAJ (Available at OSU Main Library)
  - This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The authors elucidate the basic trends that have defined modern Brazilian society and economy. In this period Brazil moved from being a mostly rural traditional agriculture society with only light industry and low levels of human capital to a modern literate and industrial nation. It has also transformed itself into one of the world’s most important agricultural exporters. How and why this occurred is explained in this important survey.

Brazilian Coffee Industry
- https://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/brazilian-coffee-industry
  - This online article written by Juliana Mello for the Brazil Business website outlines the main features of the history of the Brazilian coffee business since its introduction as an export product in 1727 until 2012. The article explains how the product gained importance in the nineteenth century substituting sugar and cotton as the main export product around the 1850s. The author also outlines the Brazilian coffee industry and the characteristics of Brazilian coffee as an agribusiness commodity.

Café do Brazil
- https://kencaf.com/cafe-do-brasil/
  - In this blogpost, the authors outline the history of coffee production in Brazil and talk about one of the most curious episodes of that history: the destruction of thousands of bags of coffee in 1932 (almost three years after the 1929 world economic crisis) by the Brazilian Coffee Stabilization Council and the Brazilian government. After that episode, Brazilian economy became the most dynamic economy in Latin America during the whole twentieth century. A quick reading about the topic for those in a hurry.

Contact Information:

Michele Saraiva Carilo, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Portuguese Language Program and Lecturer
Email: saraivacarilo.1@osu.edu
Eder Coelho Paula, Ph.D.
Academic Researcher (Brazilian History)
Email: edercp@gmail.com