Dos antigos engenhos banguês em Alagoas até o aparecimento das primeiras usinas na década de 1920

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the arrival of the first sugarcane seedlings in Brazil, brought by the colonizer Portuguese Martim Afonso de Souza, and how was its implementation process in Brazilian lands. With the construction of the first Sugar Mill in Brazil, in the current state of São Paulo. Just ahead, we will show in Alagoas, when it was still part of the captaincy of Pernambuco, the construction of its first sugar mills, the so-called Toothless mills, their names, regions and cities where they were built here in our state. We will explain the characteristics of operation and the labor used since the black slave who arrived in Brazil, in the so-called Negreiros Ships, when they were taken captive to the sugarcane farms of our state to be subjected to all kinds of exploitation. We will also report on the struggle of the blacks of the Palmares quilombos, led by Zumbi and soon after with the end of slavery and the Aurea Law. We will also show the use of free and salaried workers in agriculture. In the last chapter we will show the transition of Toothless mills and the appearance of the first sugar mills built in Alagoas, shortly after the Proclamation of the Republic in Alagoas until the 1920s.