| Grant number: | 13/18314-1 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
| Start date: | March 01, 2014 |
| End date: | June 30, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - History - History of Brazil |
| Principal Investigator: | Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado |
| Grantee: | Alexandre Ferro Otsuka |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Abstract This research proposes the development of a political biography of Antonio Bento de Souza e Castro, in order to better understand the abolitionist struggle in the city of São Paulo in the 1880s. Antonio Bento became known as an important abolitionist as a result of his leadership in the Order of Caifazes, a group engaged in the rescue of slaves through direct assistance for them to escape, providing temporary caches and sending to safe places. Because of this liberating practice, part of the historiography understands his role as eminently radical, in contrast to the "legalistic" and judicial actions of men as Luiz Gama.The analysis of the newspaper A Redempção, which Antonio Bento was chief editor, published between in the beginning 1887 and the abolition of slavery, in May 1888, will serve as a document base to this work. It is through the journal that we seek to map the political world and the web of social relations in which the abolitionist was immersed, investigating his projects of liberation and his discourses about freedom of slaves in Brazil. | |
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