Ave libertas: ações emancipacionistas no Amazonas Imperial

Abstract

Amazonas was the second imperial province to abolish slavery, anticipating in four years Lei Áurea . Our take is that slavery in the Amazon Province was organized by a logic inherent to the slavery system, thus the present work has the general purpose of elucidating the impact of manumissionist actions in the context of the Amazonas Imperial Province. Crossing data from press and presidents of provinces reports with the analysis of 152 manumission letters (1850 - 1887), this work aims to interpret the historical scene that delineated the path of Amazonian province abolitionists