Masters without slaves: reenslavement lawsuits at the Brazilian Empire

Authors

  • Keila Grinberg Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Departamento de História

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1808-8139.v0i6p4-13

Keywords:

slaves, freedpeople, poor free people, judicial system

Abstract

The aim of the article is to understand reenslavement practices in the 19th century area of the river Paraíba valley (Vale do Paraíba), whether they were really effetctive and what they meant for those who were involved. From the analysis of enslavement law suits, in which masters accused would-be slaves of pretending to be free, it seems to me that these masters had few assets in a moment when slaves prices were high. Therefore, enslavement law suits were the only means these masters had to try to get back what they considered to be their properties.

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Published

2007-11-01

Issue

No. 6 (2007)

Section

Forum

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