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| Author(s): |
Larissa Biato de Azevedo
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Franca. 2023-09-04. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Franca |
| Defense date: | 2023-08-10 |
| Advisor: | Ricardo Alexandre Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
Security became a State duty in Brazil when the Constitution of the Empire, in 1824, was granted. Since on, similarly to other parts of the world, positions and institutions were created to prevent crimes, to inform about conducts of the population, to deal with daily occurrences. Differently from other nations, the birth of Police and public security in Brazil occurred when the slavery of Africans and descendants was legal. The main objective of this research is to understand this specificity of Brazilian Police history. Precisely, this study seeks to explain how police authorities dealt with the occurrences involving slaves, freedmen and liberated Africans in Brazil during the Nineteenth Century. To accomplish this central objective, it examines various administrative documents signed by authorities from two provinces of the Empire of Brazil, Pernambuco and São Paulo, which represented the North and the South, as well as the search to national unity in that period. Among the moments of Brazilian Police formation process, the present study analyses proceedings of Justices of the Peace, Chiefs of the Police, Prefeitos de Comarca, Delegados, Subdelegados and Juízes Municipais forward practices that had as authors, victims or accomplices slaves, freedmen and Africans illegally disembarked in Brazilian ports. It demonstrates that, beyond occurrences that disturbed the so-called “public tranquility”, such as insurrections, police authorities dealt with practices related to “individual security”, like robberies of slaves, enslavement of free and freedmen and murders of slaveholders. These two last crimes, according to the authorities, offended directly the morality of the incipient Brazilian society. In short, it aims to contribute to the historical and social knowledge on Police through a study about this institution and public security construction in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, during Slavery era. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/03596-8 - Slaves and freedmen in police records (São Paulo and Pernambuco, 1827-1888) |
| Grantee: | Larissa Biato de Azevedo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |