2. Political
Royal Government had
been initiated in 1549
and by 1630 a well
developed system of
royally appointed
officials had replaced
the previous donatarial
appointments in al most
all the Brazilian
captaincies.
3. Social
Despite the efforts of the Jesuits
to convince the Brazilian Indians
to do intensive labor, or those of
the colonists to force them to, a
sedentary Indian labor force
was lacking. Therefore a
population of about 100,000,
including large numbers of
European women and some
30,000 Black slaves were
concentrated at the ports and
sugar mills
4. Economic
A variety of ownership and
contractual arrangements
among the lavradores indicates
that they were not a
homogeneous social or
economic group. Most were
Portuguese or Brazilian-born
Whites.
Prominent and wealthy owned
around 200 acres with thirty to
forty slaves, where as social
nobodies owned only a few
acres and slaves.
