The canonization of Pedro Claver, the Catholic Church and the abolition of Brazilian slavery (1864-1890)

• Grant number: 19/07287-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2019
• End date: December 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Rafael de Bivar Marquese
• Grantee: Roberta Angélica Quirino Pinto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

I intend to investigate how the Catholic Church reacted to the abolition of Brazilian slavery from an anticlerical nineteenth century. The canonization of Pedro Claver in January of 1888 may have been a response of the religious institution when entering a discourse of freedom to rewrite its past and insert itself in a new future, where state and religion would remain separated.