Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: VICTOR SANTOS GONÇALVES

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : VICTOR SANTOS GONÇALVES
DATE: 20/08/2020
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

"Bring a little water to the fire where it burned and the full compensation of emancipation": Masters and slaves on the eve of Abolition, Ilhéus, BA, (1874-1887)

 

KEY WORDS:

Families. Occupation. Negotiation. Remuneration. Emancipation.

 

PAGES: 244
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUBÁREA: História do Brasil
SUMMARY:

This proposal aims to investigate the manorial strategies of gradual emancipation from the case of the Steiger 

family and the actions and forms of negotiation of freedom by the families liberated from plantation Victoria.

 In this study, we describe the process of Abolition from a domestic perspective, recounting the decadence of 

slavery in the 1870s-1880s on the Victoria farm, owned by the Steiger family. We also evaluate the strategies 

developed by the families freed from the senzala of the sesmaria Victoria for the formation of saving.Therefore, 

we examined the social places that these liberated families occupied in the process of obtaining their emancipation. 

We tried to identify and analyze the productive activities in which these liberated families were inserted. We

 investigate, especially the struggles of these liberated families to negotiate new labor relations with the Steiger's

 in the last two decades of slavery and post-abolition. To understand this reconfiguration of working relations in

 sesmaria Victoria, we analyzed the personal correspondence (letters, Steiger's biography and the administrative

 report of the Victoria plantation) of the Steiger family. In the analysis of these correspondences of the Steiger's 

we tried to perceive the negotiation of the families released for remuneration for the activities developed in that

 plantation. We try to perceive the personal impressions of the Steiger family about slavery and its future 

through a domestic perspective through their personal letters. Our intention was to explore the fields of

 possibilities thought up by the Steiger family for the replacement of the black workforce in that sesmaria. In

 this research was pertinent the use of micro-history, thought here as a theoretical approach that contributes 

to a detailed analysis of small groups, following them between generations. Our intention was to pursue 

individuals in time and between different documentary series. We used as sources the Slave Registration Book 

of the Classification Joint of Ilhéus (1874-1886), 21 personal letters (1870-1887) from the Steiger family. We 

also analysed a short biography (1893) about Baron Steiger, an administrative report of the Victoria plantation

 from 1887 and travellers' reports.

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