Suchergebnisse

A documentary based on the criminal cases of slaves who murdered their masters in Campinas in the 1840s and 1870s, this book presents a very thorough and comprehensive analysis not only of labor relations that marked the changing relationships of slaveholders in the region, but above all, penetrates the dynamics of the slave quarters communities of farms where such crimes occurred. By connecting select criminal cases to the inventories of the goods of the master that would be inherited by his survivors, Maíra Chinelatto Alves uses the evidence offered by the criminal process innovatively within the framework of the new social history of slavery. First, the analysis focuses on the late 1840's, when sugar plantations were being surpassed by coffee and a high percentage of slaves had African origin. Then, five crimes that occurred in the 1870's are explored, showing how of a select fourteen slaves prosecuted, some of them were absolved, while others were condemned to face various punishments, but none of them were condemned to death - although it was the law of 1835