Faces da liberdade, máscaras do cativeiro : experiências de liberdade e escravidão, percebidas através das Cartas de Alforria : Porto Alegre, 1858-1888

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Title
"Faces da liberdade, máscaras do cativeiro : experiências de liberdade e escravidão, percebidas através das Cartas de Alforria : Porto Alegre, 1858-1888"
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Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira
Publisher
  • EDIPUCRS
Publication Year
  • 1996
Book size
22 cm

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Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79)

"Explores lives of blacks in last decades of slavery, based on letters of freedom issued in Rio Grande do Sul from 1858-87. A confused situation prevailed in the urban areas where status of 'free' and 'slave' overlapped; some, e.g., libertos, did not know their own status. This situation blocked development of a free labor market"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58 http://www.loc.gov/hlas

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