Escravidão na Província do Amazonas (1852-1884)

Abstract

This work aims to analyze historiographic research on Slavery, African presence in the Amazon and African and Afro descendant presence in the Province of Amazonas at the end of the 19th century. The work is divided into two chapters, and the first emphasizes that the feasibility of the research on the subject of the theme has an important meaning for Brazilian society, in view of this note, we sought to understand, through review bibliographic slavery as an institution historically constructed by man, as well as trafficking presents itself as a main factor in the insertion of blacks in the Americas, contributing to the relationship of power and subordination imposed by the European conqueror to the Amerindian and African peoples from the end of the 16th to the 19th century in Brazil blacks in the Americas, contributing to the relationship of power and subordination imposed by the European conqueror to the Amerindian and African peoples from the end of the 16th century to the 19th century in Brazil. Still at this point it was diagnosed that the African presence in the Amazon was made in significant numbers and how much slavery in this place was so relevant to this society inserted in a slave empire. The second chapter deals with the Province of Amazonas (city of Manaus as capital) at the end of the nineteenth century. Aiming that the city was going through a moment of changes and urban and population restructuring that had in standard model Europe; it is in this space that free Africans, slaves or former slaves, indigenous peoples, etc., established relationships of mutual solidarity at work to survive through the various worlds of slavery, being these protagonists and producers of different interpretations of freedom. Describing the presence of these individuals in the province led us to understand the aspects of biological and cultural miscegenation that is a main characteristic of this society. The result of this research is presented in the undeniable aspect of the African presence in the Amazon and specifically in the Amazon, demonstrating that these workers not only figured, but were fundamental for the composition of fortunes in the small Amazonian slaves; important in the cultural, ethnic and political consolidation of the region.