graduation at História from Universidade de São Paulo (1979), master's at History from Universidade de São Paulo (1985) and doctorate at History from Universidade de São Paulo (1991). He is currently full professor at Universidade de São Paulo. Has experience in History, focusing on History of Brazil Empire, acting on the following subjects: abolição, escravidão, brasil império, louis agassiz and abolicionismo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The womb of the enslaved woman occupied a fundamental place in the establishment of slavery in the Americas. Through the Roman principle partus sequitur ventrem it was defined that the condition of slavery of a person would be necessarily linked to the status of his mother. The matrilineality of slavery meant that enslaved women and their bodies played central roles as producers and repro…
From 1850 on, we can watch the emergence of a discourse aiming at the promotion of a new model of womanhood, which has its origins in medical approaches. There is the creation of a moralist representation of the woman, in which she combines the roles of wife, mother and housekeeper. If in the beginning, these behavioral patterns were aimed at women from ruling classes, these patterns were…
After independence, with the pioneer project of José Bonifácio on the gradual emancipation of slavery, Brazil begins to reflect on a future abolition. Although the slave trade has supplanted the need for vegetative growth of the enslaved force, in the middle of the nineteenth century, as some scholars have pointed out, population growth has also depended on natural reproduction. In slaver…
The attempt of this research is to investigate the experiences and social tensions faced by domestic slaves nursing mothers in nineteenth-century Brazil: form of enslavement that relapsed exclusively on women in the domestic domain, compulsory feeding entailed, from the perspective of slaves, the appropriation of their bodies as nursing mothers and their experiences of motherhood under sl…
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The doctoral research "The Eldorado of Disinherited: Indians, slaves, migrants, fugitives and the expansion to the west of the Amazon (1850-1880)", funded by FAPESP and developed with the Postgraduate Program of Social History of USP, has the objective of discussing the social roles of forest dwellers in the border movement in the Amazon in the nineteenth century. The study has been condu…
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