Um resgate histórico das primeiras fábricas de São Luís: o caso das fabricas Rio Anil e Santa Amélia

Abstract

The present work aims to recount the history of the first factories in the city of St. Louis at the end of the nineteenth century, giving more focus to the textile factories, and deepening the study of plants: Spinning and Textiles Company and Rio Anil Factory Santa Amelia, showing their deployment to the development of St. Louis for this was necessary to understand the main events in the world, and Maranhao in Brazil in the late nineteenth century. The Industrial Revolution has put Europe at the center of a global trade, increased industrial production, causing social and economic changes, industrialization in Brazil has intensified due to the abolition of slavery and the arrival of a new economy with the domestic market, and Maranhao was through industrialization that the emerging capitalist elite got the means to support the state economy. The industrial textiles generated and maintained balanced the state's economy for some time. The mills were important buildings for St. Louis-nineteenth century, and some are still landmarks in the city today, they are still in ruins or restored.