Crianças africanas escravizadas nos anúncios de fugidos, nos oitocentos, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from a doctoral thesis in progress and aims to propose questions and reflections, from the paradigm of Afrocentricity, African children enslaved as African subjects, that is, as historical subjects and social actors who were made invisible in demographics. From the Atlantic slave trade to Brazil to include them in the historiography of Brazilian childhood. In this work, the analysis is made through 420 advertisements of escapes of enslaved African children published between the years 1839 to 1849 in the newspaper O Diário do Rio de Janeiro. It is important to relate these enslaved African children (found in the runaway ads in the newspaper) and the African childhood lived and relived by many of them in their memories brought in body and mind, seen daily among their own, in the city, in the 19th century