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| Author(s): |
Lizandra Meyer Ferraz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2010-07-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes;
Hebe Maria Mattos de Castro;
Sidney Chalhoub
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| Advisor: | Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes |
| Abstract | |
This is a study of the manumission of slaves in the município (county) of Campinas, São Paulo, in the nineteenth century. In contrast to the great majority of studies on this topic which analyze only the notarial records of "writs of freedom" (cartas de alforria), this thesis uses four main sources: wills, post-mortem estate inventories, legal renderings of accounts regarding the fulfillment of dispositions in wills, and finally the notarial writs themselves. By nominative linkage of these four sources, the study analyzes the practice of manumission (understood as a "political" strategy to mollify the quarters, forged by slaveowners in day-to-day conflicts with slaves) in two sub-periods: 1836-1845 and 1860-1871. The objective is to perceive possible changes in manumission strategies (and consequently the different meanings attributed to this practice by bondspeople), resulting from the closing of the international slave trade (1850). The research also seeks to contribute to debates over slavery in the export-oriented municípios of southeastern (formerly "western") São Paulo in the nineteenth century, as well as to define new methods that will permit broader and deeper insight into manumission (AU) | |