The knowledge of how the economic production and organization of the work in Minas Gerais were structuralized in the century XIX has been enlarging in the last decades, compelling to a review of traditional theses. However, this article recognizes the inestimable value of the economic studies, in general and local level, it emphasizes the importance of taking in account factors that are beyond the economic perspective, to compose a richer and more complex picture that allows the understandment of the greater number of variables as possible that are responsible for the way the economy and labour, effectively, were organized in an arrange that allowed their reproduction beyond the XIX century.
Slavery; Economy; Reproduction; Labour; Revision