MULHERES NEGRAS: cartas de alforrias na busca da liberdade (1871-1888).

Abstract

This search has as objective to analyze the black women's struggle who were enslaved to conquest the liberty in the provinces of Goiás city, in the second half of the XIX century. The study will start with manumission papers registered in the books of notes of the First Office of General Properties Registration of Goiás City. The material used in this text was found in the Bandeiras museum (MUBAN related from 1871 to 1888. Highlighting, the free belly law affects, to women to get liberty, firstly by emancipation fund. The free belly law gave the practice regularization that had been happened even before it, the acquisition of manumission paper by peculium, or the enslaved that got a sum of money could give it to exchange for freedom. However, who do not have money, could use other practices offered by law, to conquest the liberty. The law gave the guarantee of liberty for slaves that were not enrolled in the expected date. We are discoursing the types of manumission: free conditional, unconditional and onerous one and the probable means the women used to get the liberty and the factors that made the properties afford it to them. In the perspective of genre, we are going to discourse in embracing way the strategies used by enslaved black women to get the liberty condition.