The Crime of Reducing a Free Person to Slavery in Nineteenth Century Brazil
This article discusses how the enslavement of free people was criminalized and tried in Brazil throughout the nineteenth century. Based on court cases from the southern province of Rio Grande do Sul pertaining to “reducing free persons to slavery,” we analyzed, in a preliminary way, the application...
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| description | This article discusses how the enslavement of free people was criminalized and tried in Brazil throughout the nineteenth century. Based on court cases from the southern province of Rio Grande do Sul pertaining to “reducing free persons to slavery,” we analyzed, in a preliminary way, the application of article 179 of the criminal code of 1830. We draw attention to the profiles of the victims, the context in which the cases occurred, and the decisions made. The cases have been divided into three groups, according to the circumstances of enslavement: the first concerns Africans brought to Brazil illegally, after the Atlantic slave trade was banned, as well as their descendants; the second comprises freedpersons whose manumissions were ignored for different reasons; and the third group is composed of free or freed blacks, who were kidnapped and sold as slaves. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-12c9335188344c8a82dd0dc13fbf4bd62022-12-21T22:11:30ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)Revista Mundos do Trabalho1984-92221984-92222021-04-0113121https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2021.e79922The Crime of Reducing a Free Person to Slavery in Nineteenth Century BrazilBeatriz Gallotti Mamigonian0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3871-9312Keila Grinberg1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4942-2485Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BrasilUnirioThis article discusses how the enslavement of free people was criminalized and tried in Brazil throughout the nineteenth century. Based on court cases from the southern province of Rio Grande do Sul pertaining to “reducing free persons to slavery,” we analyzed, in a preliminary way, the application of article 179 of the criminal code of 1830. We draw attention to the profiles of the victims, the context in which the cases occurred, and the decisions made. The cases have been divided into three groups, according to the circumstances of enslavement: the first concerns Africans brought to Brazil illegally, after the Atlantic slave trade was banned, as well as their descendants; the second comprises freedpersons whose manumissions were ignored for different reasons; and the third group is composed of free or freed blacks, who were kidnapped and sold as slaves.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/79922/45978crime of (re)enslavementfreedpersonscriminal justice |
| spellingShingle | Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian Keila Grinberg The Crime of Reducing a Free Person to Slavery in Nineteenth Century Brazil Revista Mundos do Trabalho crime of (re)enslavement freedpersons criminal justice |
| title | The Crime of Reducing a Free Person to Slavery in Nineteenth Century Brazil |
| title_full | The Crime of Reducing a Free Person to Slavery in Nineteenth Century Brazil |
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| title_short | The Crime of Reducing a Free Person to Slavery in Nineteenth Century Brazil |
| title_sort | crime of reducing a free person to slavery in nineteenth century brazil |
| topic | crime of (re)enslavement freedpersons criminal justice |
| url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/79922/45978 |
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