A dinâmica do enriquecimento paulista no século XIX: Das origens à diversificação do capital da família Lacerda Franco

Abstract

The text aims to seize the formation and diversification of São Paulo’s wealth during the nineteenth century. The analysis rests on the Lacerda Franco, important family whose members started economically in activities of internal market (farm supplies, animal farming and trade, production of brandy) at lands near the village of São Paulo and later migrated to the Oeste Paulista, becoming planters and farmers. This enrichment process shows the formation of agricultural societies, commissioner and exporter firms, industry, banking, diversifying the forms of wealth within the coffee exporter complex in the second half of the XIX. The focus of the study is to apprehend the dynamic (movement) of this process, materialized through the documentation of the familyand its businesses – what differentiates the work of the current analyzes supported unequivocally in inventories – the economic strategies, in different economic activities that they have enriched and the diffuse forms to invest their earnings.