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SUMMARY:How Emancipation Drives Property Rights: Theory and Evidence from 
 Imperial Brazil - Jorge Mangonnet (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Local landed elites are expected to oppose private property ri
 ghts out of fear of losing traditional privileges in land tenure. In this 
 paper\, I advance a theory of property rights formation in contexts of low
  infrastructural power and relative land abundance. I contend that the exo
 genous abolition of labor-repressive arrangements encourages landed elites
  to adopt private property rights as a legal means to prevent free rural w
 orkers from having access to land and thus reduce the cost of labor. I tes
 t this argument in Imperial Brazil\, where an external ban on the Altantic
  slave trade pushed planters to endorse the 1850 Land Law. Using novel arc
 hival data\, I show that planter parliamentarians were more likely to vote
  in favor of the new law. I also show that planters in parishes with great
 er shares of slave population were more likely to voluntarily formalize th
 eir plantations as private freeholds to subsidize immigrant labor. Land fo
 rmalization in turn facilitated the introduction of indentured labor and e
 victions. These findings reveal how landed elites strategically exploited 
 one of the linchpins of private property to keep labor cheap: the right to
  exclude others.\n\nDiscussant: Andres Guiot-Isaac (Oxford)\nSpeakers:\nJo
 rge Mangonnet (University of Oxford)
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/218dc6d7-cec3-4468-8426-9077097aff52/
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