“Esse canto que devia ser um canto de alegria, soa apenas como um soluçar de dor” — Free and enslaved workers in Rio de Janeiro (1830-1880)

• Autor(a) principal: Moraes, Renata Figueiredo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Mundos do Trabalho
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/82386
• topic: Earth’s circular motion; Moon’s circular motion; Moon’s total eclipse; Movimento circular da Terra; Movimento circular da Lua; Eclipse total da Lua

The Empire of Brazil was born with the reinforcement of the enslavement of men and women and in the following decades it saw an increase in the number of free workers, mainly in the Court. The construction of legislation that tried to organize work, in addition to limiting the actions of enslaved people in the streets, such as municipal postures, and the organization of free workers for rights at work are the themes of this text, whose motto is the song “Canto das three races”. If all workers sing a sob of pain, we will discuss the different meanings of freedom and the problems that involved some trades, in addition to the comparison between free and enslaved workers and the hierarchies between them, beyond the difference in legal status. The typographers are the privileged category in this text as they published some class newspapers, between the years 1858 and 1872, disseminating their ideas about work, low pay and comparisons with slavery. While the streets of the city were occupied by slaves who could sing to lighten their work, the free, mainly the typographers, had a space in the newspapers for complaints against the prisons they claimed to be suffering from. The sobbing of pain at work is the common point of workers in the Empire of Brazil.