Revisitando casas-grandes e senzalas: a arquitetura das plantations escravistas americanas no século XIX

This article analyses the architectural plans of the Vale do Paraíba large slave coffee plantations (Brazil), of the MatanzasCienfuegosTrinidad (Cuba) sugar plantations and of the Alabama and lower Mississipi Valley cotton plantations in the United States, all built in the first half of the 19th Century. The focus is cast on the relationship between the productive processes and the disposition of the masters big houses and slave quarters. The aim is to examine the respective weights that the architectural function and representation featured in the disposition of these spaces

Moradia escrava na era do tráfico ilegal: senzalas rurais no Brasil e em Cuba, c. 1830-1860

The subject of slaves living quarters has been under the scrutiny of the historiography\ud around Slavery in the Americas for a good while. The debate decades has revolved in the\ud last few around the discussion on the slaves autonomy and the masters control in the construction\ud of such spaces, focusing in particular on the investigation of the African matrices present in\ud the rural dwelling spaces built by the captives. I examine, in the article, the historic novelty\ud represented by two specific types of dwelling spaces that emerged after the second quarter of\ud the 19 th century: the patio shed of the Cuban Sugar Belt (in the region of Matanzas-Cárdenas-\ud Cienfuegos) and the square senzala of the river Paraíba Valley coffee region (in the Mid-\ud Southern region of the Brazilian Empire). The text demonstrates that there has been a historic\ud articulation between these two architectural arrangements, and that it is related with the\ud appropriation of certain slave trade practices in African territory