Land of Light: Slavery, Freedpeople and Abolitionism in Brazil, 1880-1888

Event Start Date: January 31, 2022 4:00 PM
Event End Date: January 31, 2022 5:30 PM

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Land of Light: Slavery, Freedpeople and Abolitionism in Brazil, 1880-1888
presentation by Licinio Nunes de Miranda
January 31 at 4:00 pm ET
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The UF Synergies: Current Scholarship in the Humanities series features informal talks by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s Rothman Faculty Summer Fellows, Tedder Doctoral Fellows, and Rothman Doctoral Fellows. Fellows will speak for 10 minutes in length about their funded work, leaving ample time for questions and discussion. Talks are paired across disciplinary boundaries to stimulate discussions about threads and connections across research areas and allow for synergies of ideas to emerge in interdisciplinary conversations.  

History of Race and Forging Anti-Racism

Licinio Nunes de Miranda (Ph.D. Candidate, History) – “Land of Light: Slavery, Freedpeople and Abolitionism in Brazil, 1880-1888” 

The province of Ceará was the first to abolish slavery in Brazil (1884), four years before the abolition occurred nationwide (1888). It was also there that the first popular victory against slavery occurred, with the shutdown of the slave trade in 1881. This dissertation addresses the extent of the involvement of non-white people, along with the organization of former slaves in a political group and the means that slaves employed to earn their freedom. By using neglected sources, including personal correspondences, church and notarial records, this dissertation argues that people of color were essential to the success of the movement.  

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