PELOS CAMINHOS DA ABOLIÇÃO: Os últimos anos da escravidão e as experiências de liberdade em Jataí

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the last years of slavery in Jataí and the first years of post-abolition, with the intention to notice the different perspectives of the masters and slaves in the process of abolition. In this sense, the reading that was made through the bibliography tries to point out the dynamic of the slavery in the region, confronting the idea, yet rooted in the historiography which suggests that the slavery in Goiás would have less intense configurations than in other places. However, from the dialogue between documents as Brazil's Census in 1872, registers of buying and selling slaves, freedom letters, inventories, and crime process, associated with other sources as the memoir literature, it was possible to point out the tensions and conflicts between the masters and slaves that were tough especially in the decades of 70 s and 80 s in the XIX century. In this perspective, the captive's strategies to confront the slavery and become free can be detected, as well as, the tactics developed by the masters in order to manipulate the loss of their moral power and make the abolitionist process slow and gradual. Eventually, the research focuses on the experiences of masters and ex-slaves in the first years of post-abolition in Jataí.