francisco barbosa is a doctoral candidate in Latin American history at Indiana University and the Lausanne Graduate Fellow at Willamette University. He is completing a social and cultural history of the Sandinista student movement in the 1960s and 1970s entitled “Insurgent Youth: Gender, Youth Culture, and the Politics of Memory in León, Nicaragua.”
zephyr frank is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Stanford University. His research interests include family, social structure, wealth holding, and slavery. He has recently published articles in the Journal of Economic History and Latin American Research Review.
renato leite marcondes is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economic Administration and Accounting, Universidade de São Paulo. In addition to the research project presented here on the structure of slaveowning in Brazil, he is also working on an analysis of mortgage lending practices in São Paulo, 1864–88.
