To Be a Slave in Brazil: 1550-1888 Hardback - 1986

Katia Mytilineou de Queirs Mattoso (born Kyriacoula Katia Demetre Mytilineou; Volos, 8 of April of 1931 - Paris, 11 of January of 2011 [ 1 ] ) was a historian Greek-Brazilian. [ 2 ] a specialist in Bahia's economic and social history (1750-1889) and in the social history of slavery in Brazil (1549-1888).

Katia Mattoso was a professor at the Catholic University of Salvador and Bahia Federal (1963-1988), visiting professor at the Universities of Minnesota (1978), Paris IV (1982) and Columbia (1983). He was also visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge ( UK ). In 1988, he took the chair of History of Brazil at the University Paris IV - Sorbonne, of which he was the first holder. Teacher emeritus . [ 2 ] of the same University, he is the author of several books, among which are: Bahia: the city of Salvador and its market in the nineteenth century (So Paulo: Hucitec, 1978), tre esclave au Brsil, XVIe-XIXe sicles (Paris: Hachette, 1979; Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995), with editions in Portuguese ( Being a slave in Brazil So Paulo: Brasiliense, 1982; 3.ed. 1990) and English (. to be a slave in Brazil New Brunswick., NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986; 7.ed. 2002), Family and society in nineteenth-century Bahia (So Paulo: Corrupio, 1988) and Bahia, nineteenth century. A province in the Empire (Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1992, 2.ed. 1994).