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This dissertation tells the story of the abolition of chattel slavery in Colombia, currently the country with the third largest population of African descent in the Western Hemisphere (after the United States and Brazil). In Colombia, as in the vast majority of Latin American nations and the northern United States, the abolition of slavery occurred through a gradual emancipation law. Enacted in 1821 in the aftermath of the Wars of Independence against Spanish colonial rule, this law banned the international slave trade, established local civic councils to manumit “deserving” slaves, and included a Free Womb law that declared the children of slave mothers to be born free, yet bonded them to their mothers’ masters until the age of adulthood. My project unravels the struggles over freedom and bondage during this protracted process of gradual emancipation in the households, courtrooms, streets, and gold mines of the Pacific Coast of Colombia, the region with the highest concentration of slaves and the gold mining center of the former Spanish Empire. "To The Mine I Will Not Go" fundamentally rethinks the nineteenth century project of emancipation by arguing that the freedom generated through the gradual abolition of slavery constituted a modern form of rule that paradoxically birthed new forms of racial domination while consolidating de facto slavery.

This thesis is a study of free people of colour during the era of emancipation in Barbados, with a particular focus on their relationships with and attitudes towards slaves. It examines the period between the 1816 slave rebellion and the 1854 cholera epidemic, encompassing the apprenticeship period of 1834-1838. The thesis argues that differences of class, political ideology, gender and the specific nature of their relationships with slaves determined emancipation's impact on free people of colour. At the same time, the thesis illustrates that pre-emancipation free people of colour as a group remained economically and politically marginal after emancipation, much as they had been during slavery. Reforms to the island's slave laws during the 1820s and early 1830s undermined the legal distinction between free people of colour and slaves. The abolitionism debate and increasing racial tension in the island led free non-whites to challenge openly the principle of racial subordination for the first time. After 1834, elite free people of colour forged a sense of "race consciousness", and adopted emancipation as the key to their battle against racial inequality, asserting themselves as the legitimate protectors of ex-slaves' interests. However class differences and disagreements over emancipation policy led to political factionalism among people of colour. The absence of fundamental change in the distribution of land and wealth after emancipation left most pre-1834 free people of colour and ex-slaves with little hope of political enfranchisement or socio-economic betterment. By the early 1850s, many came to see emigration as the solution to their difficulties. This thesis is the first study of pre-1834 free people of colour in post-emancipation Barbados, and one of few to examine both the periods of slavery and postemancipation. By focussing on the intricate relations between free people of colour and slaves/ex-slaves, this thesis shows how emancipation transformed many aspects of social relations in Barbados ― particularly with regard to race, class, labour and gender.

In the fall of 1864, Maryland became the first Border State to abolish slavery with the adoption of a new state constitution. In order to best understand the evolution of this event, the purpose of this study was to examine the civil-military relations of Maryland during the Civil War and how these relations affected the institution of slavery in the state. Therefore, the main argument is that the conflict between military and civil authorities in Maryland during the war revealed two points: first, that the federal government maintained a faithful vigilance over the state during the war and second, that the federal government exploited a fading slavery system to not only eliminate any possibility of Maryland entering the Confederacy, but also destroy any degree of Border State neutrality. / by Brian Thomas Dunne. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Orientador: Ligia Maria Osorio Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T17:06:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cosentino_DanieldoVal_M.pdf: 1082314 bytes, checksum: 2c8593be481b208c840e4cc8c9280cd2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Esta dissertação procura discutir o processo de transição do trabalho escravo para o trabalho livre em Minas Gerais, a partir da constatação de que este processo tem especificidades em relação ao que marcou experiência de São Paulo e outras regiões do País. A partir do estudo historiográfico buscamos diferenciar o caso mineiro em relação ao que ficou condicionado como ?modelo de transição? para o Brasil. Com isso, procuramos pensar o processo em Minas Gerais a partir dos estudos sobre a economia mineira do século XIX, e da constatação da diversidade regional da província. Apresentamos a transição do trabalho escravo para o livre, a partir do olhar das autoridades locais e provinciais, usando a documentação dos Inquéritos Provinciais, dos Relatórios de Presidente de Província e dos Anais da Assembléia Legislativa Provincial de Minas Gerais, e da análise populacional, a partir da documentação do Censo de 1872. O trabalho sugere que o processo, como em grande parte do Brasil, foi lento e teve dificuldades na formação do mercado de trabalho, com a incorporação do homem livre e do ex-escravo. Logo, foi um processo que ressalta problemas nacionais, de cunho regional e social, e a forma incompleta de constituição do nosso mercado interno, incapaz de ser inclusivo e acarretar um desenvolvimento mais justo e igual / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Historia Economica / Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1973.

Orientador: Fernando Antonio Lourenço / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T01:30:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vicente_RobertoRavena_M.pdf: 1040477 bytes, checksum: 8cf202f799d495de9fb48fa153e511ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: A presente pesquisa analisa determinadas políticas governamentais que, no processo de desagregação da ordem escravocrata no Brasil, visavam promover a emancipação gradual da população cativa. A emancipação de africanos livres, ainda na década de 1860, as alforrias indenizadas, a partir da década de 1870, e a libertação dos sexagenários, em 1885, servem aqui como referência para a compreensão da atuação do Estado - na figura de seu corpo burocrático emergente - no que dizia respeito à "questão servil". A partir da análise dos trabalhos das Juntas de Classificação de Escravos e da aplicação do Fundo de Emancipação de Escravos (especificamente na Província de São Paulo), é possível também perceber certas tensões que surgiam entre a dinâmica de relações pessoais locais e a ordem de relações jurídico-legais que custosamente se fazia implementar. As próprias possibilidades discursivas aparentes nas fontes analisadas permitem, por um lado, vislumbrar os limites de plausibilidade e legitimidade que orientavam o sentido da ação daqueles indivíduos (escravos, libertos, senhores, juízes, oficiais), e, por outro, reconhecer as ambigüidades e tensões que a todo momento punham em questão as categorias identitárias e sua legitimidade - ambigüidades e tensões que, de certa forma, marcam a própria figura do liberto. Embora proporcionalmente pouco representativas, essas ações abriram espaços legítimos de embate entre escravos, senhores e o próprio Estado, a partir dos quais a estrutura de relações sociais se reproduzia mas também era transformada / Abstract: This research analyzes certain Brazilian State policies that aimed at gradually emancipating the slave population during the process of disintegration of the slavery order in Brazil. The emancipation of free Africans, as early as in the 1860 decade, the refunded manumission from 1871 onward, and the manumission of sexagenaries in 1885 are references to understand the role of the State, represented by the emerging bureaucratic body, on the slavery issue. Based on analyses of reports issued by Slave Classification Committees and by the Slave Emancipation Fund, particularly in the São Paulo Province, it is possible to notice the evolving strain among interpersonal relations and the painful slowly-imposing legal-judicial order. Even the phrasing peculiarities of those written records provide clues, on the one hand, to the plausibleness and legitimacy that guided the sense of action of those individuals ¿ slaves, freed slaves, masters, justice officials, and judges ¿ and on the other hand, to the ambiguities and tensions that stained the freed slaves¿ life itself. Although proportionally less effective, those actions opened legitimate fields of struggle between slaves and masters, and between the State and them, reproducing social relation structures, also by means of their re-creation / Mestrado / Mestre em Sociologia

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In 1843, an African-American woman known as Kitty Payne and her three children arrived in Adams County, Pennsylvania, newly manumitted by their mistress, Mary Maddox of Virginia. Two years later, in July of 1845, a gang of men burst into the Paynes’ home and kidnapped the family, dragging them back south to slavery. The story of Kitty Payne and her children echoed and replayed itself thousands of times in the years before the end of the Civil War. Between 1620 and 1860, a race-based system of slavery developed in America. Not all persons of African descent came to America as slaves, however, and slaves sometimes obtained freedom through manumission or escape. This created opportunities for corrupt individuals to kidnap free black Americans and sell them as slaves, regardless of their previous status. The abduction of free blacks into slavery is an extremely significant and far-reaching part of the antebellum African-American experience that many historians have previously overlooked.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-04-06T12:55:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Danilo Luiz Marques.pdf: 1378074 bytes, checksum: 531e806765b25d2befb6e49a06ae5702 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-06T12:55:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Danilo Luiz Marques.pdf: 1378074 bytes, checksum: 531e806765b25d2befb6e49a06ae5702 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-09 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / This research inquires how the slaves resisted and, in different ways, struggled against the institution of slavery in nineteenth century‟s Alagoas. As point of departure, this work seeks to represent the experiences of the enslaved as historical subjects, emphasizing their dissonant voices, but also, considering the networks of solidarity and sociability that they established with freedmen and the free poor. Therefore, the priority is to study the resistance to slavery carried out by this population that reinvented itself and developed, within existing possibilities, various strategies to obtain their means of subsistence and to gain greater autonomy, always having freedom in their horizons. The thesis treated the Alagoas slave revolt of 1815, the Cabanos War (1832-35) and the mutinies against the "Law of the Captivity" (1851-52). The decade of the abolition of slavery in Brazil (1880) was also analyzed, through the statements of farmers and other members of local elites who complained about the "lack of slave arms", the gangs of horse thieves and the "quilombizacão" of the city of Maceió due to the constant escapes of slaves from the farms. Prior to treating these questions, it is reflected on how the memory of Palmares was constituted in 19th-century Alagoan society. The African ethnic groups present in Alagoas and the importance of orality and the body in their cultures are also discussed as factors in the process of the recovery their memory in the diaspora. Through this, we seek to contribute to a better understanding of the history of slavery and freedom in the nineteenth century and the tensions and pressures that triggered abolition, focusing on a region that, despite the many studies on the “Quilombo dos Palmares”, lacks historiographic research on the protagonism of the enslaved, freed and poor free in the process of destabilization of the institution of slavery / Esta pesquisa investiga o modo como os escravizados resistiram e procuraram, de diferentes formas, combater a instituição escravista na Alagoas oitocentista. Para tanto, toma como eixo norteador as experiências de vida desses sujeitos históricos, dando ênfase às vozes dissonantes dos escravizados, mas também atentando para as redes de solidariedade e sociabilidade estabelecidas com libertos e livres pobres. Desse modo, procura-se estudar episódios de resistência à escravidão protagonizados por essa população que se reinventou e desenvolveu, dentro das possibilidades existentes, variadas estratégias para conseguir seus meios de subsistência e se opor à instituição escrava, tendo sempre a liberdade em seu horizonte. A tese aborda a revolta escrava de 1815 em Alagoas, a Guerra dos Cabanos (1832-35) e os motins contrários à “Lei do Cativeiro” (1851-52). Também se atém à década da abolição da escravidão no Brasil (1880), analisando as queixas de agricultores e outros membros das elites locais que reclamavam da “falta de braços escravos”, dos bandos de ladrões de cavalos e da “quilombizacão” da cidade de Maceió devido às constantes fugas de escravizados das fazendas. Antes de analisar essas questões, reflete-se sobre como se constituiu, na sociedade alagoana do século XIX, a representação da memória em torno do episódio de Palmares, e discorre-se sobre os grupos étnicos dos africanos presentes em Alagoas e a importância da cultura oral e do corpo no processo de reavivamento de suas memórias na diáspora. Com isso, busca-se contribuir para um melhor entendimento da história da escravidão e da liberdade, a partir do recorte temporal oitocentista, e das tensões e pressões que desencadearam a abolição. Focando uma região que, apesar dos muitos estudos sobre o Quilombo dos Palmares, possui uma lacuna de pesquisas historiográficas sobre o protagonismo de escravizados, libertos e livres pobres no processo de desestabilização da instituição escrava

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