Outsiders in the paulista West: bondspeople in the internal slave trade and their experiences in Campinas, 1850-1888

Author(s)

Joice Fernanda de Souza Oliveira

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2013-04-11

Examining board members

Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes; Silvia Hunold Lara; Alida C Metcalf

• Advisor: Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes

Abstract

The research presented investigates the experience of bondspeople brought to the city of Campinas - a plantation center in the "historical West" of São Paulo - through the internal trade in slaves that grew rapidly after the end of the traffic in Africans (1850) and reached its height in the 1870s. My story finishes in 1888, the year of abolition. I focus my research on various aspects of slave experience - family relationships (especially marriage and baptism), labor relations, the distribution of specialized occupations, the incidence of flight and possibilities of manumissions - always contrasting the experiences of the descendants of the Africans "founders" of the slave quarters in the first half of the century, with the new "outsiders" post-1850. I construct "micro-histories" - of a small numbers of properties (three, ranging from old to "newly established"), using the method of nominative record-linkage to follow people over time and beteween different documentary series. From this work, I identify some common aspects in the trajectory of outsiders in the new captive, but mainly I apprehend the heterogeneity of experience of those displaced by the internal trade (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/05097-7 - Outsiders in the paulista west: bondspeople in the internal slave trade and their experience in Campinas, 1865-1880
• Grantee: Joice Fernanda de Souza Oliveira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master