Legislation on forced labour in Portuguese colonies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

• Grant number: 14/10424-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): August 01, 2014
• Effective date (End): July 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Lucilene Reginaldo
• Grantee: Ivan Sicca Gonçalves
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/21979-5 - Between slavery and the burden of freedom: workers and forms of labor exploitation in historical perspective, AP.TEM

Abstract

This project will examine legislation on forced labor in the Portuguese colonies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The analysis will focus on existing legislative data, which will be be entered into the Database "Legislation: Work and Workers in Portugal, Brazil and the Portuguese Colonial Africa" (http://www.ifch.unicamp.br/cecult/lex/web/ ). In addition to collecting and referencing information on legal texts, the student will produce a comparative essay on the forms of forced and contract labor in different colonial contexts (Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau).