Nascidos de ventre livre, um caminho para a liberdade? Crianças ingênuas em São Raimundo Nonato-PI (1871-1888)

Abstract

This paper examines and studies the children born of free wombs in São Raimundo Nonato-PI, in the period 1871-1888. Its main objective is to understand how historiography works on the issue of naive children and their inclusion in spaces where they lived with other enslaved blacks and the issues of black women's motherhood, as well as the relationship between masters and enslaved people in favor of freedom through abolitionist laws and the different forms of resistance. To do this, we used baptismal records as a basis, the 1871 free womb law and bibliographical research. Based on E. P. Thompson's conception of social history. Thompson, revised for the perspective of slavery, and authors who work on the enslaved population in Piauí such as Solimar Lima and in São Raimundo Nonato, Nayanne Viana and Deborah Gonsalves Silva. We used the qualitative method which, through the data, seeks to formulate a debate with other sources of study and thus identify how important the construction of social ties was in the lives of the enslaved black population who sought ways to survive.