Toil, sociability, solidarity and conflit: poor, working and black women in Feira de Santana, Bahia, 1890-1920

Abstract

From the crime processes and population census in the period between 1890 and 1920, we tried to understand the experience of approaching and differentiation between poor, working and black women from Feira de Santana. We asked ourselves how this experience interfered in their relation with other social people and in the reconstruction some episodes which were experienced by such women, we observe that, though they share the same experience of oppresion, and in most of the cases, they behave in the same way to choose the same self representation strategy to the justice, by several times they found different ways to solve their problems. In this sense, uncover the past of these characters brought to light their values and the several times of fight for survival, sociability and solidarity built by these women as well as the conflicts which, in anyway, they were involved.

Keywords

• poor women
• working women
• black women