Faces da liberdade, máscaras do cativeiro
Subtitle: experiências de liberdade e escravidão, percebidas através das Cartas de Alforria : Porto Alegre, 1858-1888
By: Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira.
Series: Coleção História ;; 12; Coleção História (Porto Alegre, Brazil) ;; 12.
Publisher: EDIPUCRS
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Porto Alegre
Language: por
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Slaves -- Emancipation -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre -- History -- 19th century; Freedmen -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre -- History -- 19th century; Porto Alegre (Brazil) -- History
Description: "Explores lives of blacks in last decades of slavery, based on letters of freedom issued in Rio Grande do Sul from 1858-87. A confused situation prevailed in the urban areas where status of 'free' and 'slave' overlapped; some, e.g., libertos, did not know their own status. This situation blocked development of a free labor market"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79).