TO WRITE IN ORDER NOT TO SILENCE: AFRICANS, SICKNESSES AND ACCESS TO THE FIRST LETTERS IN THE SUREST OF SLAVES, RESEARCH NOTES
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The access to formal schooling in Brazilian society, in its beginning, was restricted to some groups. Africans, even those who were free, or the ones who had been freed, couldn’t enter schools. They were forbidden by the law, as well as those who were committed with infectious diseases. Despite, they have apprehended the codes of reading and writing. They´ve gone beyond, using these resources in constructing their point of views, as well as in negotiations, appropriations, actions and demands. In this sense, we consider as a possible interpretation that the multiple experiences of slaveries in Brazil allowed Africans and their descendants to build literacies, out of reading and writing domain, using these skills to articulate politics, memory and history. We have two documents as sources to propose our reflection: the letter written by freed slaves form Paty de Alferes (1889) and the document apprehended of a quilombola in Espírito Santo, with grammar (1861).
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