Artigo Revisado por pares

O impasse da escravatura: prostitutas escravas, suas senhoras e a lei brasileira de 1871

1996; Brazilian National Archives; Volume: 9; Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

0102-700X

Autores

Sandra Lauderdale Graham,

Tópico(s)

Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil

Resumo

This article discusses social practices, everyday routine and the social and juridical conflicts related to slave prostitutes and their mistresses during the 1860's and 1870's. The text also discusses the campaign of the abolicionists which culminated in the Brazilian Slavery Law of 1871, also known as the Law of the Free Womb.

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