A participação da mão-de-obra escrava na vila de Cajazeiras no séc. XXI.

Abstract

This work and a study made in written documents of sec. XIX, which has as reference, deeds of purchase and sale of slaves, letters of manumission and inventories, from the village of Cajazeiras, in the interior of the province of Parafba do Norte. The aforementioned documents pass information from the sixties of the nineteenth century, when the town of Cajazeiras was part of the Sousa region. Faced with this documentary body, he realizes that the commercial transaction involving the slaves opens space for several questions, such as the daily life of a local history, commercialization through mortgage, and finally, the need for witnesses in the registry of the registry , which awakened me to reflect on the power of articulation of these witnesses. I tried to find out if they were nominated by chance, or if there was a prior communication to attend the register on a given day. The signature of the witnesses was a constant element in all the documents I researched, certainly their importance was also fundamental to making captive marketing legal. There is no doubt that the offspring of these witnesses belonged to families who stood out socially. Still discussing the slave condition in an emerging society, besides witnesses, important documents such as seller, buyer and the presence of traditional families such as the Albuquerque and Rolins, who entered economic decline in the 80's also appear in the documents. Also they are explicit in the sources that the slaves of the Village of Cajazeiras were bought in the private form, and not in auctions, as it happened in other regions of Brazil. The slaves in the village of Cajazeiras were valuable commodities. However, in the 1980s, they no longer appear in the relation of traditional families, according to the inventories surveyed in the first indicators of economic decline, the output was to maintain what was left of the "fortune". It is also noticed that the inhabitants of the eight hundred in the Villa of Cajazeiras, did not offer comfort, as it was also common in the colonial and imperial period in Brazil. To my surprise, when reading the inventories of the 1980s, the relationship of masters' goods, with the exception of small places, was basically restricted to furniture and domestic utensils of little commercial value, and once the same families invested their resources almost exclusively in slaves. To obtain a more satisfactory research, I sought theoretical support in historiography linked to social history and micro history. Based on my concerns about the eight hundred in the town of Cajazeiras, and with the partnership between documentary sources, I sought various questions based on the local reality and the recent historiography on the theme of the construction of a social history.