A case study of digital humanities on the legal journal ‘O Direito’ and the gradual emancipation of slavery.
Digital Humanities; Legal Journal; Slavery; History of Law; Metadata Analysis
This dissertation analyzes the legal journal O Direito from the perspective of digital humanities, understanding it as a historical source and object of investigation mediated by digital tools. The study aims to examine the construction, organization, and circulation of legal discourses within the journal, with an emphasis on the representations and actions of the subjects involved in the gradual legal practices concerning slavery.
The research articulates qualitative analysis procedures typical of historiography through the tools of Digital Humanities, aiming to broaden the interpretative possibilities in relation to traditional readings by exploring data to identify patterns, recurrences, and absences in the texts.