Living a "spetacle of miseries": the experience of the slaves traded to Campinas, 1860-1888

• Grant number: 13/13520-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Silvia Hunold Lara
• Grantee: Letícia Graziele de Freitas Lemes
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

After the final extinction of the African slave trade to Brazil, in 1850, the slave traders turned to inter-and intraregional trade, especially to answer the labor demand in the coffee provinces. Therefore, we see a significant increase in the intensity of the internal slave trade between 1850 and 1881, and especially in the last decade of that period. Uprooted from their homes and the domain policy which they were accustomed, slaves sold in interregional trade found new challenges in the places where they arrived. The objective of our proposal is to analyze the impact of internal slave trade in the lives of individuals who were sold and its significance for slaves' resistance and mobilizations against slavery in the Southeast Brazil, particularly in Campinas. We will seek to discern the ways found by bondsmen to survive and/or resist the trade, by the formation of new family and solidarity networks, and by strategies to get out of slavery (by manumission, flights or crimes). (AU)

Academic Publications

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

LEMES, Letícia Graziele de Freitas. Living a spectacle of miseries: the experience of slaves traded to Campinas, 1860-1888. 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.