Family, Stability, and Respectability: Seven Generations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas C. Libby
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
History Of ◽  
Family Reconstitution ◽  
Seven Generations

This article focuses on the history of an Afro-descendant family over its seven generations in one region of Minas Gerais. Although it is notoriously difficult to trace families founded by slaves, this one is an exception: it has proved possible to trace this family over a century and a half, and with a remarkable level of detail, because its members mostly stayed in one place. The implications of their permanence go beyond mere genealogy or family reconstitution to challenge long-standing historiographical perspectives. Over the years many scholars have agreed that Brazilian colonial and early imperial society was characterized by the near-constant movement of all segments of the population. New frontiers opened by agriculture, ranching, and mining attracted some members of the elite, but also beckoned the less favored with new opportunities. This incessant movement has even been touted as an impediment to the advancement of family history in Brazil.

scholarly journals Children, Emotion, Identity and Empire: Views from the Blechyndens' Calcutta Diaries (1790–1822)

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-201
Author(s):  
PETER ROBB
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Family History ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
The Self ◽  
British Library ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Imperial Identity ◽  
History Of

The voluminous Blechynden diaries, in the British Library, offer incomparable opportunities for studying (among other things) domestic life among middle-level British residents of Calcutta around the start of the nineteenth century. This paper is concerned with a small part of the history of the Blechynden household, focusing on Arthur Blechynden, son of Richard and his successor as superintendent of roads. Richard's diary runs to more than 70 volumes and Arthur's to seven. These sources permit none of the structural analysis that was made the basis of family history by Peter Laslett and others; but they touch several points of the richer canvas painted by Laurence Stone, and those genres that are concerned with individual lives, with emotion, with relationships, and with identity, the kinds of subject approached by the contributors to Roy Porter's collection Rewriting the Self. In this paper some of these issues will be taken up, with particular reference to ideas of individuality and of race. That discussion will then lead on to another, on the construction of British imperial identity outside Britain and in the context of the formation of empire, an aspect that seems worthy of more attention than it has received.

Making Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-141
Author(s):  
Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Black Artists ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Iconic Images ◽  
History Of

In this interview, artist and scholar Deborah Willis describes the work of excavating and organizing the history of Black photography. Willis’s groundbreaking scholarship helped to formally establish an archive of Black visual practice before libraries and cultural institutions began to purposely catalogue such materials. Across projects, she has engaged questions of beauty, citizenship, Black culture, and family history from the nineteenth century to the present by closely examining the camera practices of legendary photographers and the cultural contexts surrounding iconic images. In this interview, Willis describes her research as a student relying on periodical records as well as on the support of Black artists such as Roy DeCarava, Carrie Mae Weems, Gordon Parks, and James VanDerZee. This conversation with the author intertwines Willis’s personal history and the history of creating a visual archive to offer a look back and a look forward at the practice of Black photography.

Age at Marriage in England from the late Seventeenth to the nineteenth Century

1973 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. B. Outhwaite
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Family Reconstitution ◽  
Urban Behaviour ◽  
Demographic Behaviour

In the two centuries after 1700 there occurred upwards of twenty million marriages in England and Wales. It is perhaps forgivable, therefore, that this paper has about it the air of an interim report. It might be thought doubly foolish for an individual, and in this field a professedly amateur investigator, to embark upon any enquiry into past demographic behaviour when there exists that formidable, professional task force, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. At the last count it had within its lockers, for example, ‘aggregate analyses’ of over 550 English parishes. To provide information about the ages at which people married, however, the Cambridge Group appears to be relying primarily upon ‘family reconstitution’ techniques. It is not necessary to explain these techniques or to describe the remarkable light they have shed on the vital events of the past. With such tools the Cambridge Group have not only crept literally between the sheets of history; its individual members have not been abashed at publishing their preliminary findings. Yet obscurity remains and with it the thought that family reconstitution may not prove entirely adequate to the insistent demands for more information on when and why people married. For the undertaking of full family reconstitution both registration and record survival have to be good, and the method is undermined where there is a great deal of migration, albeit temporary or permanent. Unfortunately many of the most interesting demographic questions revolve around urban behaviour, and town records may be deficient on many of these counts, especially in that vital and perplexing period from about 1780 to 1840.

scholarly journals Crossing Boundaries: Nineteenth-Century Domestic Relations Law and the Merger of Family and Legal History

1985 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Grossberg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Family Law ◽  
American Family ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Domestic Relations ◽  
History Of

This essay argues for the need to study the legal history of the American family. It does so by combining a critique of secondary literature in family and legal history with examples from nineteenth-century domestic relations law. These examples, drawn from family law doctrines on seduction under the cover of a marriage promise, runaway marriages, and bastardy, are used to indicate the benefits of adding a sociocultural dimension to legal history and legal and institutional dimensions to family history. Three main themes in the history of nineteenth-century domestic relations law are developed to make these points: the law's particular fabric of issues, its distribution of authorship, and its chronological development, These themes suggest why a full understanding of the legal history of the American family requires crossing the boundaries between legal and family history.

Epidemiological profile of patients diagnosed with prostate cancer at Muriaé Cancer Hospital, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e17530-e17530
Author(s):  
Carla Simone Moreira de Freitas ◽  
Aleida Nazareth Soares
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Family History ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Malignant Neoplasms ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cancer Hospital ◽  
History Of ◽  
Epidemiological Profile

e17530 Background: Prostate cancer (CP) is one of the most common malignant neoplasms among men with high prevalence worldwide. In Brazil, in 2019, 582,000 new cases of cancer were estimated, 282,000 in women and 300,000 in men, 75% are prostate cancer in individuals over 65 years of age (BRASIL, 2019). The occurrence of CP has specific risk factors, such as advanced age (over 65 years), genetic predisposition (patients with a family history of prostate cancer, between 35 and 40 years of age) and ethnicity (mostly blacks). Mortality due to this neoplasm is considered relatively low compared to other types of cancers, which partly reflects a good prognosis.The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiological profile of prostate cancer patients treated in an Muriae Cancer hospital in Minas Gerais - Brazil. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study conducted between 1997 and 2019 with 4,395 patients diagnosed with CP, living in the region and adjacencies, 4,175 (95%) assisted by the Unified Health System (SUS). Results: Patients from Minas Gerais-Brazil, cities of microregions and rural areas, the most prevalent age group was between 61-70 years of age with 1769 cases (40.25%), 3476 (79.1%) with low schooling, 3156 (71.82%) with per capita family income less than 0.5 minimum wages, and in regarding profession, the majority 541 (58.05%) is retired and rural workers 148 (15.88%); 1933 (44%) alcohol users, 2021 (46%) smokers and 1626 (37%) with a report of a family history of cancer. As for ethnicity, 1943 (44.23%) were black. Nutritional status 3845 (87.49) were eutrophic. The mean time between diagnosis and treatment was 51 months. PSA levels were 1ng/ml to 10 ng/ml (39%), from 10 ng/ml to 28 ng/ml (21%), from 28 ng/ml to 70 ng/ml (9%) and from 70 ng/ml to 200 ng/ml (6%) and > 200 ng/ml (5%); altered tests 1845 (42%), PSA elevation 1538 (35%), obstructive symptoms 965 (5%), dysuria 579 (3%) and pain 579 (3%). The majority (50.41%) with stage II, stage III (18.10%) and IV (9%), highlighting that in 1997 the percentage of advanced stages (III and IV) was 47% and in 2019 it decreased to 18%, due to earlier diagnoses. Conclusions: The analyzed data allowed to characterize the epidemiological and sociodemographic profile of patients treated in Muriaé Cancer hospital, Brazil, contributing to decision-making regarding the treatment provided to this population.

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