Escravidão, moradia e resistência

Abstract

The big slave mobility, which was a characteristic of the great urban centers, enabled the slave autonomy to expand through dwelling activity, whose variety could be observed in the stories of travelers, police documents, municipal positions, orders and licenses directed to the City Council and post-mortem inventories. The captive autonomy was one of the main characteristics of the urban slavery. One of its facets was the possibility for the slaves of obtaining to reconstruct their life away from the eye of their maters, this practical house was known as to live by oneself. This paper aims at examining this practice during the Regency period in order to examine how housing could also be a form of slave resistance.

Keywords

• resistance
• Rio de Janeiro
• housing
• urban slavery
• regency period (1831-1840)