Cotidiano e resistÃncia nas Ãltimas dÃcadas da escravidÃo, Olinda, 1871-1888

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This is a study about the daily and the strategies of slave resistance between 1871 and 1888, having as starting point the unfoldings of the Law of the Free Womb. After of this law the owners of slaves its ownerships in a determined stated period were obliged to register all, contrary case would lose the right on these. Such captives were enclosed in a special registration, intitled of "Classification of the Slaves to be Freed for the Fund one of Emancipation". This fund did not reach the waited results, considered for many a failure. However, the same it made possible the production of an important document for the study of the slavery in these last years of the institution. The List of Classification of the Slaves comes to be the base of this study, for bringing inexhaustible subsidies, such as: name of the slave, age, color, civil state, profession, aptitude for the work, people of the family, morality, value and the name of the owner. Beyond these information, the list also brings a special column destined the Remark, making possible for we get into still more in the universe of the daily one. It is important to detach that with advent of the Republic, the destruction of these documents regarding the slavery, that could legitimize the action of old owners. However, the lists regarding Olinda "Rui Barbosa did not burn". Four lists had arrived at the current days, produced between 1873 and 1876. Due to amount of information and for these to bring given repeated, we concentrate in the latter, for considering the "closing" of all the others. From this document it was possible to trace the profile of the slavery of the city, dividing the population for age and sex, in which we observe that the institution - although not to reach great numerical representation - still became present, in a city it are of the model agro-exporter. The slave labor persisted in the diverse spaces of this locality, from the house works, passing for the profit until agriculture. Small proprietors - majority enters the owners of Olinda - had preserved its ownerships until more not obtaining to benefit itself of its forces. The ownership of a slave could reach incomprehensible meanings to the current eyes, explaining, perhaps, how owners of few slavers - in a conjuncture of crisis of the captive labor - had persisted until the last moments of the abolition. Itâs evidences for the presence of children in diverse plantation, many times majorities between the ownerships of some proprietors. The example of this was the "ingÃnuo", that they could be considered as potential workers until at least completing 21 years of age, exerting activities as any another captive. But not only youngest they had its value in these difficult times, already oldest slave had guaranteed the sustenance of many owners until more they did not support the difficulties of the captivity. The women had also gained prominence in our discussions, had to the important paper that they played in the some moments of the daily life. When dealing with these daily to violence and uncertainties, we could not leave to approach the family enslaved, who contributed in the rework of strategies of resistance in elapsing of the years, being able to be considered as main element in the formation of the bows of then solidarity

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escravidÃo lista de classificaÃÃo historia resistÃncia escrava olinda

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