Citation

Radünz R, Siuda-Ambroziak R. Anos 90 2021; 28.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021)

DOI

10.22456/1983-201X.105727

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Abstract

This article proposes a historic-sociologic-cultural discourse analysis regarding the slavery in Brazil through determined criminal judicial procedures that concern enslaved subjects negotiating their captive condition. These procedures are archived in the Public Archive of Rio Grande do Sul State (APERS) and they present the following binominal: infanticide and suicide attempt. They refer to slave mothers that in different moments killed their own children and then attempted suicide. In these procedures there are allegations of demonic possession and other similar argumentations that were used to try to explain this limit act. In all of these cases, the common thread is the violence present in the enslaving culture that marked Brazil and that, to a certain degree, was not overcome by the Abolition of Slavery in 1888. © 2021 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. All rights reserved.

Language: pt

Keywords

Suicide; Violence; Infanticide; Slavery