Senhores e escravos do sertão: espacialidades de poder, violência e resistência, 1850-1888.

Abstract

This dissertation is a discussion of the relations between masters and slaves from the hinterland of the Province of Paraiba, specifically in the region of Ribeira do Rio do Peixe, during the second half of the nineteenth century (1850-1888). So, we, first, unveiling the social environment for backcountry, then highlight the conditions of operation of its social workers, and their actions, practices and everyday experiences. We also highlight the difficulties encountered by gentlemen of the wilderness for the maintenance of royal power over a period of decline of the slave system, while we emphasize that the attitudes of the captives in the face of gaps or opportunities that this period favored them. References used to develop this work studies the cultural history of slavery and revealing method for searching. The search can be divided into: 1) judicial - criminal and civil, 2) Church - records of baptisms, marriages and deaths, 3) Cartor - scriptures, 4) various - leaves enrollment slave census of the empire (1872) and manuscripts of the Overseas Historical Archive of Lisbon. Through this variety of sources can mount a historiographical theme, showing a hinterland that was configured in multiple spatialities nature of cultural practices, power, violence and resistance.