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| Author(s): |
Maria Emília Vasconcelos dos Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2014-03-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Silvia Hunold Lara;
Sidney Chalhoub;
Jefferson Cano;
Walter da Silva Fraga Filho;
Marcelo Mac Cord
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| Advisor: | Silvia Hunold Lara |
| Abstract | |
This thesis aims to investigate the social experiences of the mills' workers in the emancipationist context of the 1880s and the immediate post-abolition. Our study discusses the breaks and lines of continuity between slavery and freedom experienced by the Lord of sugar mill and the workers of sugar cane. Among them, the poor and free population, mainly the black people and the slaves at the South Zona da Mata of the State of Pernambuco, especially between the years 1884 and 1893. To achieve this end, we make use a corpus consisting of several historical sources, such as police letter, lawsuits, newspapers, population census, memoirs and letters. At the intersection of these sources we intend to see the different meanings of Abolition, freedom and work for the characters presented in this thesis. The research showed that, throughout the years 1884-1893, the South Zona da Mata has undergone transformations promoted by the struggle to end slavery and Abolition, which changed the social and political relations in the region. At this time, of reordering of the social and labor relations, the black population sought to conquer greater autonomy and dignity, expressed by movement between towns and mills, imposing limits to the social oppression. Already the sugar mill owners, in turn, lived moments of discontentment with the loss of the old lordly prerogatives, and created strategies to control the manpower of former slaves and poor free. So, we aimed, above all, demonstrate how the experiences of slavery and abolition lived by the sugar workers influenced in complex working relationships, alliances and negotiations established on everyday and modes of claiming rights in post-abolition (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/09117-2 - The meanings of May 13th: the Abolition and the workers in sugar mils in South Zona da Mata of Pernambuco, 1885-1893. |
| Grantee: | Maria Emilia Vasconcelos dos Santos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |