Laços da diáspora: associacionismo e educabilidade entre a população negra em Pernambuco (1800-1850

Abstract

The study discusses the practices and collective expressions of blacks in nineteenth-century Brazil, here defined as associationism, understanding them not only as social spaces, but also as important educational instances for this population within the slavery system. Accordingly, we sought to identify these different forms of social organization in the Province of Pernambuco in the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as the possible existing connections between them, also analyzing the capacity of social and political activities of these entities, including their organization and operation, in addition to analyzing the importance of the educational dimension to this process. For this, we performed a documentary research from consulting to some collections of the Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage - IPHAN, on the brotherhoods black and browns, supplementing with the consulting government documents in the Assembly file legislative Pernambuco - ALEPE, the search for more clues about the daily activities of these organizations. In the Public Archives State of Pernambuco, collect information about everyday relationship between blacks and social control of the province. Also researched the law of that time to verify the legal basis of which the action stemmed from the provincial authorities and that affected the black, free and slave population; was completed with the consultation of the newspapers of the time in Nabuco Foundation, particularly the Diario de Pernambuco, whose movement started in this period makes the rounds of the Province experienced by different social actors. We believe that such associative arrangements of the black population meant the construction of "autonomous " social and political life within the slavery system, both in material terms, as symbolic alternatives for which also drew on African traditions and principles shared between generations. Thus, the educational factor is evidenced as a fundamental dimension of associative dynamics, allowing the sharing of values and knowledge between members of different groups, which made these organizations educabilidades true instances where this black population could seek inspiration and learning to continue recognizing and reaffirming its identity value in Brazil.