The Chamber and the Market: Workers in Rio de Janeiro's Market Square and Their Relations with the Municipality in the 19th Century
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2013v5n9p49Keywords:
Rio de Janeiro, Municipal Chamber, Praça do Mercado, small traders, Africans, Brazilian citizensAbstract
In this article, I seek to discuss the relationship between the municipality of Rio de Janeiro and the workers—especially those identified as tenants or leaseholders of stalls—of the Praça do Mercado do Rio de Janeiro, the main supply center for basic necessities in the nineteenth century. To this end, I examine in detail the disputes between two tenants of the Praça—Domingos José Sayão, a freed African from the “Calabar nation,” and Antonio Joaquim Franco, a “Brazilian citizen”—over the ownership of a fish stall in 1846. In this approach, it will be possible to assess who was “qualified” to occupy—and actually occupied—the different sales spaces within the market, as well as to follow the equally differentiated relationships that these small traders maintained with inspectors, municipal agents, and city councilors.
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