Abstract
This article addresses the structural changes and the functioning of the whaling structures on the Island of Itaparica, after the end of colonial exclusive rights. Its temporal dimension is delimited between 1814 and 1890. The way in which they were reopened, the work relationships, the productive activities added to the frames and the freedmen’s engagement in whaling are central questions in the analysis of the text. The sources used were inventories, wills, notebooks, reports from the government of the captaincy and the president of the province, criminal proceedings, newspapers, baptism records, and statistical maps.
Keywords:
Whaling; sharecropping; self-employment