Reivindicações e resistência: o não dos africanos livres (São Paulo, séc. XIX)

This article uses fragments of the life histories of liberated Africans to show the daily resistance of those who believed in their right to freedom. Believing in their unique condition as liberated slaves or individuals rescued from the slave trade, they represented themselves as free individuals t...

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Main Author: Enidelce Bertin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal da Bahia - Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais 2009-01-01
Series:Afro-Ásia
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77019782003
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description This article uses fragments of the life histories of liberated Africans to show the daily resistance of those who believed in their right to freedom. Believing in their unique condition as liberated slaves or individuals rescued from the slave trade, they represented themselves as free individuals to the authorities, thus coming into conflict with the practices of public and private administrators. This resulted in several attempts to prove illegal enslavement, numerous confrontations with the guardianship system - one of the guises of slavery - and various other demands with interesting implications. Thus, their daily resistance exposed the vicissitudes of the relations between liberated Africans and public administrators, as well as the conditions to which the former were submitted in the jobs to which they were assigned.
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spelling doaj.art-e5dd3e5ad49f4a0b8bf4ee21b4c04e512022-12-21T22:40:42ZengUniversidade Federal da Bahia - Centro de Estudos Afro-OrientaisAfro-Ásia0002-05911981-14112009-01-0140105143Reivindicações e resistência: o não dos africanos livres (São Paulo, séc. XIX)Enidelce BertinThis article uses fragments of the life histories of liberated Africans to show the daily resistance of those who believed in their right to freedom. Believing in their unique condition as liberated slaves or individuals rescued from the slave trade, they represented themselves as free individuals to the authorities, thus coming into conflict with the practices of public and private administrators. This resulted in several attempts to prove illegal enslavement, numerous confrontations with the guardianship system - one of the guises of slavery - and various other demands with interesting implications. Thus, their daily resistance exposed the vicissitudes of the relations between liberated Africans and public administrators, as well as the conditions to which the former were submitted in the jobs to which they were assigned.http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77019782003
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title Reivindicações e resistência: o não dos africanos livres (São Paulo, séc. XIX)
title_full Reivindicações e resistência: o não dos africanos livres (São Paulo, séc. XIX)
title_fullStr Reivindicações e resistência: o não dos africanos livres (São Paulo, séc. XIX)
title_full_unstemmed Reivindicações e resistência: o não dos africanos livres (São Paulo, séc. XIX)
title_short Reivindicações e resistência: o não dos africanos livres (São Paulo, séc. XIX)
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