A LEI DOS SEXAGENÁRIOS COMO ESTRATÉGIA PARA MANUTENÇÃO DA PRECARIEDADE SOCIOESPACIAL NO BRASIL

: This article aims to broaden the debate between space, time and social aspects, analyzing the sexagenarian law of 1885 understood here as the last great attempt to maintain legal the slavery of blacks in brazil. The context marked by coloniality, gradualism and the legal diplomacy itself, reproduced precarious conditions for the black population. The gradual transition proposed by the elite was materialized as a regression and the debates for a new rule that would bring significant results raised socio-spatial, economic and political issues that provided a favorable scenario for the definitive abolition of slavery.