Orientador: Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T02:49:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Reis_IsabelCristinaFerreirados_D.pdf: 7324174 bytes, checksum: d43057c026869ed36fa18b00aec64202 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Neste estudo investigo a experiência de vida familiar negra no contexto da Bahia escravista da segunda metade do século XIX, enfatizando a forma como as mudanças sociais, econômicas e políticas do período influíram nas relações familiares dos negros submetidos ou não ao regime de cativeiro. Argumento que, para melhor conhecer esta experiência, há que se considerar uma conjuntura nitidamente emancipacionista ¿ tanto do ponto de vista de uma política arquitetada e controlada pelo Estado, como pelas ações capitaneadas pelos escravizados, negros livres e libertos. Nesta conjuntura, se ampliou a interação entre indivíduos com estatutos jurídico diferenciados, ligados por laços de família, parentesco, relacionamentos afetivos e comunitários, o que nos legou uma história afro-brasileira repleta de sujeitos em situações complexas ou inusitadas, a exemplo das muitas histórias contadas ao longo deste trabalho. Para a elaboração deste estudo, foi realizada uma ampla pesquisa em fontes arquivísticas e historiográficas, através das quais se realizaram problematizações elucidativas sobre a experiência de vida familiar negra e do cotidiano da escravidão. A combinação de fontes qualitativas e demográficas favoreceu a compreensão dos sentidos que os negros conferiam às suas próprias experiências / Abstract: In this study I investigate black family life in the context of the slave-based society of Bahia, Brazil in the second half of the 19th century. My research particularly examines how social, economic and political changes in the final decades of slavery influenced family relations among blacks, whose legal statuses often differed within the same kin group. I argue that in order to best understand this experience, we must consider it within a distinctly emancipationist set of conditions ¿ including the gradual abolitionist policies constructed and controlled by the State, as well as the self-directed actions toward the liberation of family members by enslaved, free and freed black people. Given these particular historical circumstances, interactions developed among individuals of different legal statuses linked to each other through family ties, affective relationships and broader community connections. This study contributes to understanding a remarkable Afro-Brazilian history of individuals and families in complex and uncommon situations, many of which are reflected in stories told in this work. The study is based on extensive investigation in archival and historiographic sources, by means of which I was able to illuminate important scholarly questions related to 19th century black family life and the daily experience of slavery. A combination of qualitative and demographic sources facilitated an exploration of the meanings that blacks conferred on their own personal and collective experiences as members of family groupings / Doutorado / Historia Social da Cultura / Doutor em História

In 1807, Parliament passed an Act to abolish the slave trade, leading to the Royal Navy’s campaign of policing international waters and seizing ships suspected of illegal trading. As the Royal Navy captured slave ships as prizes of war and condemned enslaved Africans to Vice-Admiralty courts, formerly enslaved Africans became “captured negroes” or “liberated Africans,” making the subjects in the British colonies. This work, which takes a microhistorical approach to investigate the everyday experiences of liberated Africans in Tortola during the early nineteenth century, focuses on the violent conditions of liberated African women, demonstrating that abolition consisted of violent contradictions that mirrored slavery.