Abstract
Throughout the nineteenth century, the new configuration of the world economy reserved the role of producer and exporter of coffee for Brazil, resulting in expansion of crops and increase in the demand for hands: initially slaves, then immigrants. In the context of the transition from slave to free labor the article intends to analyze comparatively the strategies developed by large landowners and by the State to obtain and control the labor destined for coffee plantations.
Keywords:
Slavery; Free Labor; Coffee Economy