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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Ricardo Alexandre Ferreira is a Professor of Modern History at the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho. He develops research activities related to African slavery and the construction of the Modern State in the Portuguese portions of the Iberian Peninsula and America, between the 17th and 19th centuries. He was Head of the Department of History at UNESP de Franca and editor of the magazine História (São Paulo) at UNESP between 2015 and 2017. He coordinated the Postgraduate Program in History at UNESP (Câmpus de Franca) between 2017 and 2020 and the Postgraduate Program in History at UNESP, arising from the merger of the PPG-History of UNESP de Assis and Franca, in the years 2020 and 2021. He worked, between 2015 and 2021, as the researcher responsible for the subproject Legislation, law and slavery in the Portuguese portion of the Americas: from ordinances to manuals and practical treatises (18th and 19th centuries) which integrated the Thematic Project 'Writings about the new worlds: a history of the construction of moral values in Portuguese', hosted at UNESP and financed by FAPESP (Process 2013/14786-6). He is a researcher at the History Center of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, where he was a Senior Visiting Professor between August 2022 and January 2023 (CAPES). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The long process of condemnation of slavery in Brazil was marked by successive attempts of intervention from England, and with the Society of Friends was no different. The Society of Friends, better known as the Quaker movement, was a radical strand of Protestantism and contributed with relevant arguments to the Christian debate on the enslavement of Africans and their descendants. Alread…
The present work aims to evaluate slavery as an obstacle to the conception of the family in eighteenth-century São Paulo. It is worth highlighting here, the family considered legitimate by the Church. Marriage, elevated to the status of a sacrament by the reforming Church, was intended to discipline intimacy. When sexual practice became subject to regulations, the legitimate family was cr…
Due to the english pressure and other variables of the established political debate, most of all, at the law houses of the Empire of Brazil, the government sanctioned, on November, 7, 1831, the law which prohibited the transatlantic traffic and freed all africans who were to land in the territory after this sentence, with the condition of compulsorily staying under braziian State authorit…
The purpose of this research project is to map the different legitimate titles of slavery, as well as the moral imposition of responsibility to the Portuguese State in maintaining and overseeing the legitimacy of the slave trade in the 16th century. For this purpose, the main documental corpus will be the work of Luís de Molina - Tractatus de iustitia et de iure - originally published in …
In Brazil of the Eightieth, the problem of public security, as a matter of government, followed the birth of the Imperial State, especially after the entry into force of the 1824 Constitution, provinces, positions and institutions with the competence to prevent the practice of crimes. In many ways, and this was not a specificity of Brazilian history, civilizing and avoiding the practice o…
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The process of denouncing slavery in Brazil was marked by successive attempts from the British Empire and, in a broader scope of contestation, by the antislavery activity of the Society of Friends. More commonly known as the Quaker movement, the Society of Friends was a radical branch of Protestantism that contributed to the debate on the emancipation of African slaves since the first dec…
The Holy Office of the Inquisition of Portugal judged and sentenced a number of deviations from heresy and different types of defendants. Among the persecuted profiles, attention was directed mainly to the dissidents committed by the New-Christians, which did not exclude the concern about other types of accused: clerics, fidalgos, peões, Africans and their descendants. Those, if were not …
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