Os nomes da liberdade: experiências de autonomia e práticas de nomeação em um município da serra rio-grandense nas duas últimas décadas do século XIX

Abstract

This paper intends to investigate the forms through which free life was built by former slaves, taking as locus the city of São Francisco de Paula, in the northeast of Rio Grande do Sul, during the two final decades of the 19th century. In this city,located in the highlands, I investigated subjects such as residence, relationship with the old masters, child tutelage, work, criminality, military engagement, and the names adopted by former slaves in free life as some of the means of access to the complex ways through which their insertion in their society was, under new parameters, made possible