Januário da Cunha Barbosa: experimentalism, nation’s future projections, slavery and the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute

This article discusses the relationship between slavery, the nation’s future projections and the foundation of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute (IHGB) from canon Januário da Cunha Barbosa’s experimentalist texts, understood, according to Seymour Drescher, as an effec...

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Author: Ferretti, Danilo José Zioni
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP)
Repository:História da Historiografia
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br:article/1629
Online Access:https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1629
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute (IHGB)
Slavery
Historical Time
Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro
Escravidão
Tempo Histórico
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Summary:This article discusses the relationship between slavery, the nation’s future projections and the foundation of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute (IHGB) from canon Januário da Cunha Barbosa’s experimentalist texts, understood, according to Seymour Drescher, as an effective practice in search of alternatives to black slavery labor and the reflections resulting from it. Based on Reinhardt Koselleck’s concept of historical time, the article underlines the importance of slavery as a condition of possibility and a constitutive topic of the emerging Brazilian historiographical production, pointing to different ways of defining the role of slavery in the future projections outlined on the first IHGB debates.