What stories may the coffee farms of Vale do Paraíba still reveal? This was the initial question that has motivated this research. However, this question has quickly turned into another, seemingly more pertinent: what narratives do these farms try to hide? In order to understand how the power of coffee slave-owning elite has operated through the form of their farms in Vale do Paraíba Fluminense s region, this thesis explores the various paths outlined by historical and documentary sources, especially considering their absences and concealment. This path leads to the characterization of the specific way in which these spaces became physical and symbolic landmarks of the economically and socially dominant class in Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth century until abolition. In this period, there is a reorganization of the slave system in the Americas, identified as second slavery. Therefore, the remaining buildings of these farms, visited throughout the research, become documents that reveal how architecture, and the process of construction and destruction of spaces, became mechanisms for the implementation of the necropower. The analysis of these sources is integrated into a theoretical discussion that leads to the elaboration of the concept of necrotopia, presented in this thesis as a tool for interpreting attempts to materialize white-European utopias of racial superiority.