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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.8.2008.tde-03122008-144226
Document
Author
Full name
Alessandra Caetano Gomes
E-mail
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2008
Supervisor
Committee
Gallardo, Dario Horacio Gutierrez (President)
Lewkowicz, Ida
Wissenbach, Maria Cristina Cortez
Title in Portuguese
Em busca da liberdade: as alforrias em duas regiões do sudeste escravista, 1825-1888
Keywords in Portuguese
Alforrias
Escravidão
História do Brasil
Século XIX
Uberaba-MG e Franca-SP
Abstract in Portuguese
Este estudo aborda o tema das Cartas de Liberdade com o objetivo de compreender as práticas de manumissões, em Franca e Uberaba. Fundadas e povoadas por migrantes mineiros, essas regiões se caracterizaram por uma economia voltada à pecuária e agricultura de alimentos, cujos excedentes eram comercializados nos mercados locais e regionais. A pequena posse de cativos resultou na proximidade entre senhores e seus poucos escravos, sendo, portanto, um dos fatores que facilitaram a conquista da alforria. O uso de métodos quantitativos e a análise qualitativa das alforrias mostraram as especificidades contidas no processo de manumissão, nas relações escravistas, e das táticas usadas pelos cativos na conquista da liberdade. Enquanto, de um lado, os senhores utilizaram da alforria como método de controle da escravaria, de outro, os escravos foram sujeitos que empregaram as mais diversas estratégias para a conquista da liberdade, o que mostra que o processo de manumissão também foi um fenômeno ocorrido em ambientes tipicamente rurais
Title in English
In search of freedom: manumissions in two regions of the slaveholding Southast, 1825-1888
Keywords in English
19th century
Brazil
History
Manumission
Slavery
Uberaba - MG e Franca - SP
Abstract in English
The present study addresses the issue of the Certificates of Freedom in order to understand the practices of manumissions in Franca and Uberaba, Brazil, during the XIX century. Founded and populated by migrants from Minas Gerais, those regions’ economies were characterized by livestock and agricultural food production, which surpluses were sold in the local and regional markets. The small slave possession resulted in a proximity between slaveholders and their few slaves, being, therefore, one of the facts which made the achievement of manumission easier. The use of quantitative methods together with the qualitative analysis of the certificates of freedom have shown peculiarities of the manumission processes, of the slavery relationships, and of the tactics applied by the captive in order to obtain freedom. While, on one hand, masters used freedom as a method to control slavery, on the other hand, the slaves themselves employed the most diverse strategies to achieve freedom, what shows that the manumission process was also a phenomenon which occurred typically in the rural areas
 
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Publishing Date
2008-12-03
 
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