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cord-344639-t9xbzczc	DeVore, Jonathan	From sharecropping to equal shares: transforming the sharing economy in northeastern Brazil	2020-08-09		.txt	text/plain	9244	390	50	However, rural Brazilians have also succeeded in transforming shared land into more equal and equitable distributions, from "peasant breaches" that emerged in slave gardens from the early colonial period through the abolition of slavery, to land occupations that occurred in the late twentieth century. These cases suggest that, through planting cacao and coffee trees, enslaved people such as João and Joaquim were able to create specifiable, legally recognizable, and defensible property rights on land that was shared with them by plantation owners. Having secured small spaces of autonomy within the plantation landscape, and opportunities to accumulate small bits of wealth for themselves, these peasant breaches even helped some slaves to achieve their freedom through "self-purchase." 7 Whereas in the cases described by Woodburn, sharing had both the purpose and effect of dissolving social hierarchies by foreclosing opportunities to generate and accumulate property, in southern Bahia, slave owners' decisions to provide slaves with plots of land they could cultivate for themselves had a similar (if incipient) effect on dissolving social hierarchies.	./cache/cord-344639-t9xbzczc.txt	./txt/cord-344639-t9xbzczc.txt