Lavradores, vice-reis e as políticas de fomento econômico no Rio de Janeiro colonial: o caso do anil

Abstract

This paper raises some questions about the economic development practices that the Portuguese Crown sought to implement among the colonial population in the second half of the 18th century, trying to verify some of the reverberations of these measures among the less well-off rural population, namely the peasants who lived in the outskirts of the city of Rio de Janeiro. In this way, a first effort is made to observe the agricultural policy of the “developmentalists” in its dynamics with the peasant domestic economy, in order to understand the tensions and positive points between the royal policy and the economic and social panorama of the farmers.