The ex-abolitionist: the memory of slavery in the newspaper, The Athlete – 1884

• Autor(a) principal: CONFORTO, Marília
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Patrimônio e Memória
• Texto Completo: http://pem.assis.unesp.br/index.php/pem/article/view/83
• topic: Slavery. Literature. Paper. Document. Research sources. Society. Slavery.; Escravidão. Literatura. Jornal. Documento. Fontes de pesquisa. Sociedade.

This study has two objectives: first to analyze a short story published in the journal, The Athleta in 1884 as a contribution to the memory of the social history of slavery. The Athleta, a newspaper published in Porto Alegre, published in its September 7th 1884 issue, a narrative on the commemoration of the Independence Day festivities, as well as on the abolition of slavery in Porto Alegre. The tale, The Ex-abolitionist, is important to the historiography of abolition, because it resituates the social condition of the slave and the free citizen in the realm of fiction, and establishes the emergence of a new social locus for the exslave.The second objective of this study is to disseminate awareness of the journal’s short story and make it available for further analyses.