Sidney Chalhoub

• Abstract

  This project focuses on the way workers (enslaved or free, native-born or immigrants, men or women, whites, blacks or Indians) attributed political meanings to different aspects of their daily !ife, whether in the workplace or in spaces of sociability and leisure, for the resolution of conflicts with masters, employers or public authorities. The objective is to examine the process by whic…

  Workers in Brazil: identities, rights and politics (17th to the 20th Century), AP.TEM

• Abstract

  This proposal seeks to integrate a number of current investigations being conducted at CECULT/UNICAMP on the historical experience of poor urban workers in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Our objective is to engage in debate with the historiography on the subject, questioning some of its assumptions. First, the belief that the end of slavery contributed to the making of a politically active…

  Santana and Bexiga: daily life and culture of city workers in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro between 1870 and 1930, AP.TEM

• Abstract

  The present research is centered in the decades of 1880-1890. It is intended to investigate the Carioca literary scene in the moment of transition between the Monarchy and the Republic, problematizing the fact that until now most analyzes in the fields of sociology, cultural history or social history only explore the literary and political work of " Of letters ", especially during this pe…

  From the literary projects of the "men of letters" to the combative literature of the "women of letters": press, literature and gender in late nineteenth-century Brazil, BP.DR

• Abstract

  Based on literary, legal and associative sources, this project proposes to investigate the labor relations among writers, journalists, publishers and booksellers in Rio de Janeiro between the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century. Part of the CECULT's project "Between slavery and the burden of freedom: workers and labor exploitation in historical perspective", the researc…

  Intellectual laborers: authors, journalists and publishers in Rio de Janeiro (1850-1920), BP.PD

• Abstract

  Between September and October 1885, two women from the village of São Francisco do Conde, from Bahia recôncavo, complained against the freedom process through the Emancipation Fund, third article of the 1871 law. Freedom of sick slaves and overpricing, favoritism to relatives of the government and important local slaveholders, exclusion of slaves from the list without communication to the…

  Only the slaves of "relatives" and "influential owners": indemnity and freedom by the Emancipation Fund (São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, 1871-1888)., BP.DR

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  This research focuses on illegal enslavement and the precariousness of freedom in 19th-century Brazil, with special interest in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In general, I seek to investigate the social logic operating behind the always large number of people arrested suspected of being slaves in the capital. The widespread practice of illegally enslaving Africans recently introduced to the…

  Illegal enslavement and the precariousness of freedom in 19th-Century Rio de Janeiro (1830s to 1880s), BE.PQ