Building freedom: anti-slavery and abolitionist struggles for black women in 19th century Brazil

Abstract

Throughout the 19th century, from the north to the south of Brazil, black women -free, free and captive -acted in different ways in the process that triggered the Golden Law in 1888. In this sense, this article aims to shed light on the participation of black women in everyday and popular struggles, individual and collective, fought against the institution of slavery, gender inequality and socio-racial discrimination in the country, considering the intersectionality between gender, race and social class in the dialectic of slave domination . The proposed challenge is to reveal the contributions of historical materialism to the writing of the history of black women and observe unique trajectories based on the search for freedom.

Keywords

• black women. history teaching. abolitionism. anti-slavery.