News from a Former Slave Empire: perspectives and interpretations of the Abolition in Brazil in the United States Press, may-december 1888

• Grant number: 25/12331-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2025
• End date: July 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Principal Investigator: Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi
• Grantee: Lara Castello Branco Lima
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to study the circulation of news about the abolition of slavery in Brazil in the U.S. press from May to December of 1888. To this end, three American newpapers from different political segments were selected. The New York Age, a newpaper founded by African Americans and reconized for its fight for racial equality and the recognition of black citzenship. The Daily Times, a paper created by a former Confederated army officer in Virginia. And, finnaly, the New York Tribune, a newpaper that, although written by american white men, showed some abolicionist and anti-racist tendencies. Therefore, this study seeks to investigate how the May 13 of 1888 was interpretated in the United States considering the emergency in that country of the so-called Jim Crow laws, which sought to confer legal legitimacy upon policies and practices of racial segregation following the Reconstruction era (1865-1877).