ABREU, W.E.A.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8113685640203623; ABREU, Wlisses Estrela de Albuquerque.
Résumé:
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.