Population dynamics of free and slave - Vila Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 19th century.

The work seeks to understand the demographic regimes that characterize the Brazilian past. Within this concern, it considers the population of the municipality of Franca (São Paulo, Brazil) in the 19th century, seeking to reconstruct demographic indicators and their relations with regional and national socioeconomic context, comparing them with those found for other towns and regions of Portuguese America. For both, series will be raised from existing parish registers for the period 1806 to 1888. The analysis of such registers will allow a better comprehension of migration dynamics that compound Brazilian demographic regimes, as well as other variables of population dynamics (marriage, birth and mortality).