When the slaves fled: Province of the Holy Spirit, last decades of slavery

Making use of police inquiries, we deal with slaves' escapes, their motiva­tions and hopes and also the slaveowner's interpretations of these breakouts. We find out that neither the eyewitnesses who contacted the runaway slaves had a special concern in denouncing them. We conclude that esc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Soares, Geraldo Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Estudos Ibero-Americanos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/24119
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/iberoamericana/article/view/24119
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:History
Slavery
Quotidian
Historia
Esclavitud
Vida cotidiana
Descripción
Sumario:Making use of police inquiries, we deal with slaves' escapes, their motiva­tions and hopes and also the slaveowner's interpretations of these breakouts. We find out that neither the eyewitnesses who contacted the runaway slaves had a special concern in denouncing them. We conclude that escapes were a slaves' strategy in their fight for spaces of freedom.