Schools of freedom in imperial Brazil

• In Event: Black resistance in Latin America: Identifications, strategies, alliances

Abstract

The objective of this work is to discuss the meanings of the education of slaves in the 19th century. It seeks dialogue with studies that indicate the importance of various actions around the schooling of freedmen and slaves. From the analysis of sources such as periodicals, the work indicates that instruction was a form of struggle and survival in a society that persecuted, stigmatized and sought to demarcate, in the body, in gesture and speech, the place of the slave.The paper understand education as a loophole in gaining mobility and social ascendancy in a slave society and strongly hierarchical. Instruction, learning to read, writing and so many other knowledges were ways to achieve freedom.

Author

• Alexandra Lima Da Silva, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)