The authors' main objective is to think the work relationships among slaveholders, slaves, peasants, administrators and foremen, in southwest coffee farms, in the last decades of the slavery. Thereby, those social relationships are analyzed through the idea of "farm community". One of the most important topic is the conflict between free and slaves in formation of the alliances towards justice and work social rules of the "farm communities", either being interrupts, or being restated in permanent social conflict.
Anthropology; history of slavery; emancipation; slave's politics; farm communities; slaves; Negroes