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| Author(s): |
Elaine Ribeiro da Silva dos Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2010-12-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach;
Alexsander Lemos de Almeida Gebara;
Carlos Moreira Henriques Serrano
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| Advisor: | Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach |
| Abstract | |
Between the years 1884 and 1888, the Portuguese military Henrique Augusto Dias de Carvalho made a great expedition from Luanda and reached mussumba (capital) of Lunda, governed by Muatianvua. He took with him several objectives, determined in part by the interests of the governmental powers of Lisbon, in part because their aspirations for scientific knowledge. In this expedition were added to different groups of Africans, lured or recruited workers who have proved responsible in large part by the progress of the trip. With reference to the narrative of this expedition, produced by Henrique de Carvalho, the present research is an attempt to reconstruct the life story of these men and women, measuring their experiences from the assumption that there were not marginal to the organization and success of the enterprise Portuguese. Set on the issue in the broader context of historical processes related to the advent of the imperialist policy in the second half of the nineteenth century, the role of African workers was analyzed in terms of what is rearticulate forms of exploitation of labor, brought about by the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery itself in African regions. Matters to us verify not only the forms of participation of porters, guides and interpreters in the expedition of Henrique de Carvalho, as well as the answers given by the various African groups the types of work for which they were submitted. From this perspective, the research about the experience of these workers, as recorded in the work of the Portuguese military, was a proposal for analyzing resistance through understanding of their notions of rights and duties, organizational tasks, daily practices, strategies in dealing with the African authorities and the command of the expedition. (AU) | |