Escravidão e resistência escrava na "Cidade D'Arêa" oitocentista.

Abstract

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.