debates sobre o fim do tráfico de escravos e da escravidão nos periódicos Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro, Correio Braziliense e Investigador Portuguez (1814 a 1819)

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Soraya Matos de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12980
• topic: Press; Public Opinion; Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro; Correio Braziliense; Investigador Portuguez; Congress of Vienna; Slave Trade; Haiti; Imprensa; Opinião Pública; Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro; Correio Braziliense; Investigador Portuguez; Congresso de Viena. Tráfico de escravos; Haiti; Escravidão; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The main objective of the paper is to understand the construction of a Portuguese public opinion regarding the end of the Atlantic slave trade in the context of the meeting of the Allied Powers at the Vienna Congress. Opinion that was constructed in the periodicals, that circulated in the four corners of the Empire. Specifically for the conformation of the thesis we list three: the Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro, Correio Braziliense and the Investigador Portuguez. The humanitarian discourse of the English abolitionists, based on the ethical and moral values of Christianity and also linked to the Enlightenment ideals, ran up against the discourse of merchants and all those involved in the blacksmithing activity and also anchored in the need of population for their colony in America, Brazil. Bearing in mind the arguments within a political economy that developed with the liberalism pursued by the businessmen of the time, journalists were at the center of what we might call the translation or reframing of the ideals and values that the English internationalized on the Vienna stage. A former colony that had impacted the institution of slavery with its independence, St. Dominic, at that time populated the minds of the negotiators, for good or ill the example of that Revolution passed through the pages of the publications analyzed, in order to maintain or not by negotiations, the infamous trade.