Cativos julgados: experiências sociais escravas de autonomia, sobrevivência e liberdade em Cachoeira do Sul na segunda metade do século XIX

Abstract

This essay analyzes the social experiences of autonomy, freedom and survival of the captives a region characterized by European immigration, Germans and Italians. Contemplating the captive as an agent within the slave system, emphasis will be given to moments of conflict and crime, with the valuation of judiciary and police documents produced, in which they appear as defendants, victims or witnesses, interpreting the existing social relations between different subjects inhabited the central region of the former province of Rio Grande de São Pedro, the current Rio Grande do Sul, mainly in the town of Cachoeira, in the late nineteenth century (1870- 1888), demonstrating their longings, their ties of solidarity and conflicts with free men and free, in a constant struggle between slavery and freedom. For both processes will resort to crime in pursuit of understanding the history of slavery. These sources used in a qualitative offer us the possibility of contact with the daily life of slaves in the slave society, contributing to the debate on the line of research, Frontier, Integration and Policy in History from the Federal University of Santa Maria.