Dr. Jean Ramos Veloso

Biography

Jean Lucas Ramos Veloso is a PhD Candidate at the University of Bern, specializing in agrarian history and finance history of Brazil. His doctoral research focuses on the internalization of colonialism and its impact on land concentration and capital markets in Brazil from 1850 to 1906. The study investigates how Brazil's political economic slaveholding elites adapted and reinterpreted colonial financial models to maintain control over land and the nature of commodities during the transition from slavery to free labor. Veloso's work examines the creation of financial institutions that promoted land commodification and facilitated property concentration, especially in relation to the expansion of coffee frontiers. His research argues that in response to the crisis of slavery, Brazilian elites internalized mechanisms developed by European metropolises, particularly in France, and transplanted these colonial finance models to ensure post-abolition political and economic dominance. Veloso actively participates in academic conferences and has presented his findings on various platforms, contributing to the scholarly discourse around the history of finance and slavery in Brazil.

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