MULATAS, PRETAS E CRIADAS: ENTRE O TRABALHO ESCRAVO E O TRABALHO LIVRE EM BELÉM.

Abstract

This article deals with the relation between the discourses produced about black women, slaves and liberated women, in the last decades of slavery and after the abolition (1850 -1900), and their survival strategies in face of the negative visions to which they were submitted. The continued presence of these women in the urban daily life of the city of Belém, as winners, saleswomen, maids and maids, made their production dynamics essential in a context of economic effervescence due to Borra's economy. The process of modernization in the Amazon was linked to bourgeois aspirations shaped by the ideal of European civilization, in such a context the presence of free and black people in the domestic environment was considered a necessary evil. I have shown the tensions between the model of manorial rule and the aspirations for freedom of these women.