We study the internal slave trade characteristics in Constituição (Piracicaba) in the period 1861-1880, when the province of São Paulo was under the impact of the coffee culture expansion from the Paraíba Valley to the West. Using the registers of the transactions of slaves, we analyze some demographic (sex, age, origin) and economic (price) variables of the commercialized people. We consider, also, the information about the local of residence of the other people involved in the transactions, mapping the attributes of the inter- and intra-provincial trades. Finally, we analyze some effects of slave legislation. Our analysis compares the periods 1861-1869, 1870-1873, and 1874-1880.
Internal slave trade; Coffee expansion in São Paulo; Piracicaba
