A estrutura de distribuição de terras no município de Campina Grande 1840-1905.

Abstract

The land distribution structure in the region evidenced the economic dominance of large landowners, whether through monopoly of land, ownership of slave labor or control over free labor, or through the domain of production for export and control of the land. intern market. The large productive units were not essentially cattle ranchers. Although livestock farming was present in the entire agrarian economy of the region, the number of those dedicated exclusively to it was small. The great majority of the large landowners were also linked to cotton farming (which was cultivated with slave labor), which was not only an economy complementary to livestock, but at least as important as it.