Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 305

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BRAZIL.) Memoria sobre a Fundação e Estado Actual da fazenda da Nova Louzã. 54, [1] pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, worn with tape repairs; moderate wear to first few leaves, moderate foxing; early owner's inscription on front wrapper. São Paulo, 1870
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The story of a Brazilian farm which operated without the use of enslaved laborers, years before abolition. João Elisário de Carvalho Montenegro acquired the plantation in 1867 and is regarded as the first in his region to produce coffee with free labor, mostly imported from his native Portugal. None traced in OCLC, though we find one copy held at a library in the Azores, a Portuguese colony.