As perspectivas de senhores, escravos e libertos em torno do pecúlio e das redes familiares no desagregar da escravidão em Barbacena (1871-1888)

Abstract

This dissertation will approach the perspectives of masters, slaves and manumitted slaves in crises advance under slavish system by the lordly familiar relationships and the resources like peculium in the second half of the Nineteenth-Century in Brazil (1871 1888 ). It will be focused in a variety of strategies which slaves with their families appropriated, to confront the moral power of masters, mainly after the publication of Lei do Ventre Livre in terms of Barbacena. On the other hand, it will be considered a reflection about the groups of farms and relatives of familiar s farmers/businessman and the dependence with middle and short farmers, and with manumitted slaves families giving an specific sense at the end of the century XIX at Abolição da Escravatura , as well as to the restructure of paternalism forms in this place. The research was made and based on the analyses of supporting actions and liberty actions occurred in Barbacena, testaments, inventory, libertation, buying and selling slaves books, electoral register copies from Barbacena s Camara (1877 and 1878), contacts of jobs made between local farmers and manumitted slaves and the payment acquittance to the ex-prisoners(Slaves) from the farms after the Abolition.