When the slaves fled: Province of the Holy Spirit, last decades of slavery

Authors

  • Geraldo Antonio Soares

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2003.1.24119

Keywords:

History, Slavery, Quotidian

Abstract

Making use of police inquiries, we deal with slaves' escapes, their motiva­tions and hopes and also the slaveowner's interpretations of these breakouts. We find out that neither the eyewitnesses who contacted the runaway slaves had a special concern in denouncing them. We conclude that escapes were a slaves' strategy in their fight for spaces of freedom.

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Published

2003-12-31

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Soares, G. A. (2003). When the slaves fled: Province of the Holy Spirit, last decades of slavery. Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 29(1), 53–72. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2003.1.24119

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Vol. 29 No. 1 (2003)

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