THE EXPERIENCES OF SLAVES, OF A POOR CHILD, AND OF A “BLACK KINNER FROM HIS ARISTOCRATS” WITHIN ‘CASAS-GRANDES’ AND NOT: DOMESTIC SLAVERY AND THE POST-EMANCIPATION IN RECIFE (1870-1910)
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Abstract: This paper makes an inventory and examines some experiences of black women and men domestic servants in the last years of slavery and in the first decades of post-emancipation, in the city of Recife. It examines and problematizes the strength of structural permanences of racism, slavery, the bonds of social and racial dependence that made black children, liberated and free subordinate workers in family homes. The set of experiences purposefully recounted suggests a more static picture of a Recife that goes beyond the year 1900 and the official dates of the end of legal slavery in the country without radically altering domination practices and customs, updating forms of subjection inscribed in the domestic sphere. This paper interprets literary texts, memoirs and other documents, most of which were constructed from the perspective of masters /patrons.
Keywords: Domestic slavery; Post-abolition; Memories.
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