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The objective of this study was to analyze the demographic dynamics regarding the rural–urban and male’ female population in the municipalities of the “predominantly rural’, ‘intermediate’ and ‘urban’ regions of the Zona da Mata Mineira (ZMM), in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The ZMM is a coffee-producing region with 142 municipalities, 90% of them with less than 20,000 inhabitants, and it is marked by the predominance of small rural properties with less than 50ha. Despite being an impoverished and poorly industrialized region, the municipalities of this microregion have maintained and even increased their urban population when compared to municipalities with a higher Human Development Index (HDI), located in southern Brazil. In this region of the ZMM, the dual residency of mainly small rural producers has grown above the average in Brazil and the state of Minas Gerais. To analyze the demographic peculiarities and agrarian structure of the municipalities of the ZMM, the population data provided by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE) between the 1970s and 2020 was used, in addition to the classification criteria of the regions of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). The results of our study showed the largest growth in one microregion with a ‘predominantly rural’ when compared to “predominantly urban” profile. These data revealed the peculiar characteristics of the demographic dynamics of the ZMM in relation to other Brazilian mesoregions, which would justify new studies. However, the Brazilian and global trends of masculinization and aging of the rural population was also observed in the ZMM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyzing the social and economic relations in a specific society is extremely important for its comprehension. In this article the objective is to comprehend the surviving strategies used by the family of Antonio Augusto Bicalho Canêdo, the greatest owner of slaves of São Paulo do Muriahé parish. The utilized sources will be the baptism registers, weddings and the post-mortem inventory related to our character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]