The meanings of May 13th: the Abolition and the workers in sugar mils in South Zona da Mata of Pernambuco, 1885-1893.

• Grant number: 09/09117-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2009
• End date: March 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Silvia Hunold Lara
• Grantee: Maria Emilia Vasconcelos dos Santos
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 06/57297-1 - Workers in Brazil: identities, rights and politics (17th to the 20th Century), AP.TEM

Abstract

Focused on the period between 1885 and 1893, this project deals with how slaves, freed persons, and free laborers in South Pernambuco region called "Zona da Mata" experienced the implications of the abolition of slavery. Based on a wide range of archival sources, the work recovers the lived experiences of ordinary men and women, analyzing the strategies employed by slaves and former slaves during this important shift in labor relations in an agricultural region wi th a comparatively low slave population.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SANTOS, Maria Emilia Vasconcelos dos. The meaning of 13 may: abolition and the immediate post-abolition of workers for the sugar mills in the Zona da Mata Sul of Pernambuco (1884-1893). 2014. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.