SILVA, E. F.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5426742049621509; SILVA, Eleonora Félix da.
Resumo:
That dissertation makes an approach on the population in the city of Areia during the
second half of the XIX century. That was a period in which that city, of Brejo's area of
North Parahyba's province, went by an urban development resultant of a transformation
in its physical structure, in the social, cultural and economical life. In Areia, it had
grown a Slave Society, where the civic world was harnessed to the needs of the rural
way. In that territory, a significant part of the material wealth of the wealthiest it was
based on the ownership of slaves. However, the slave population was not simply
merchandise or a good. Through a demographic analysis, our work intends to show that
the prison population, in Areia, it was formed by people that, besides working a lot, they
lived multiple daily experiences as the formation of solidarity bows and sociability, to
example of the constitution of families and of other important personal relationships in
their actions in search of the freedom. The slaves in Areia had given up of several
possibilities to break up with the slavery, be through escapes, of the negotiations around
the enfranchisement of the slave or facing their owners in the local tribunals. To come
true our objectives a group of sources was analyzed constituted by purchase
registrations and slaves' sale, letters of enfranchisements, general census of the empire
of 1872, presidents' of the province of Parahyba's reports, post mortem inventories,
lawsuits and newspaper of the XIX century.
