Sobreviver e resistir: os caminhos para liberdade de africanas livres e escravas em Maceió (1849-1888)

• Autor(a) principal: Marques, Danilo Luiz
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12792
• topic: Escravidão; Africanas livres; Escravas; Resistência; Slavery; African free; Slaves; Resistance; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

This work aims to study the life experiences of the Africans, free and slaves, in Maceio during the period from 1849 to 1888, highlighting the struggle for survival and strength of these women who lived through the juncture of the last moments of slavery in Brazil. Thus, we show how was configured the city of Maceió when it was consolidated as a new demographic and economic hub in the region of Alagoas. With this, we intend to enter on the activity that were made on daily basis in the city in order to glimpse the black sociability and the presence of women in social life. By reading and analysing the documentes, search the fragments of the lives of slaves and free African - entering in the daily battle these women for their survival and their fight against slavery. This region of Alagoas was the scene of a constant movement of slave ships that was coming directly from Africa or from other provinces, such as Bahia and Pernambuco. Most Africans were brought to provide domestic services, work on public constructions or make sales gain as slaves, all of it in Maceio. About the black womens, we can say that their field of work was enormous, so they could had performed various tasks like washing, ironing, cooking and selling delicacies. By doing these many kind of activities the womens were marking the daily life of the city of Maceió. We seek to understand what were the practices exercised by Africans, free and slaves in order to emancipate themselves or alforriarem as well as being an important part to the outbreak of the end of the slave regime in Brazil