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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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