A lenda da Abolição

Auteurs

  • Maria Stella Martins Bresciani Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.11606/1982-02671979TomoXXIXe10

Résumé

The attempt to organize men’s behavior through a set of laws represents a specific exercise of the more general practice which seeks to shape society according to a prior and unquestionable understanding, whose origins both are and are not related to reality itself. The law abolishing slavery in Brazil conformed to this rule, and became the center of a widely held myth: that abolition meant the liberating and dignifying of labor in the country. The elaboration of these myths has a specific meaning: they hide the complex texture of the historical process, and give it the character of linearity implicit in the idea of progress.

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Biographie de l'auteur

  • Maria Stella Martins Bresciani, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas

    Departamento de História do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

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Publiée

1979-12-31

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BRESCIANI, Maria Stella Martins. A lenda da Abolição. Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, n. Tomo XXIX, p. 193–200, 1979. DOI: 10.11606/1982-02671979TomoXXIXe10. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/216291. Acesso em: 8 févr. 2026.