Em favor da liberdade: ensaios abolicionistas e a crise de legitimidade da escravidão

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Fattori, Vinicius [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: História; Movimentos antiescravagistas; Escravos - Emancipação; Escravidão - Aspectos sociais; Brasil - Historia - Abolição da escravidão - 1888
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/140253; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/07-06-2016/000866487.pdf

Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, but even before May 13, the interpretations about the main responsible for conducting and, definitely, end this system were developed by the 19th century contemporaries and then by interpreters of our society. If previously historiography credited this fact to the politicians and abolitionists of the Empire, since the 1980s the focus has shifted to the actions of the slaves, being these fundamental to destabilize the regime. The present work, however, does not intend to seek the decisive movement that conducted the end of slavery. In this work, we aim to investigate how the abolitionist position of some 19th century scholars could be constructed based on reinterpretation of ideas, concepts and theoretical apparatuses, which previously were in favor of captivity. The texts used as sources for this thesis were unappreciated by historiography. Based on the ideas and styles contained in these primary sources, we intend to demonstrate how they belonged to the same cultural milieu which the most prominent abolitionists of the Empire came from. Taking into account five texts produced in the 19th century, this study proposes advance in the understanding of the pacts of truth made by the contemporaries of that time in the building of a new truth about the injustice and illegality that lead the slavery institution in Brazil. This discussion was materialized, at first moment, in the Law of the Free Womb, number 2040, passed on September 28, 1871