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A Redempção
A Redempção
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A Redempção opens its columns to fugitive resistance
📅 2 January 1887The first issue of A Redempção began a recurring “Crônica de Anos” column that named captains of the bush and other agents of recapture. Its editor, Antônio Bento, made the paper part of an...
Newspaper reports racialized policing on the Jundiaí railway
📅 8 January 1887A Redempção reported that police at Jundiaí had ordered Black passengers off a train on the basis of race, treating Black mobility as grounds for suspicion. The account makes railway travel a...
The paper names people who hunted fugitives
📅 9 January 1887In another “Crônica de Anos,” A Redempção listed people it identified as fugitive catchers. Naming these agents challenged the anonymity and local legitimacy of slave-catching. The newspaper was a...
A freedom register records three manumissions
📅 13 January 1887The paper’s “Álbum abolicionista” recorded three manumissions. This section preserved details of individual acts of freedom, but its publication does not mean that every person could secure release on...
A Redempção expands its public naming of slave-catching
📅 20 January 1887The January 20 issue continued to identify local figures involved in recapture and defended its abolitionist orientation. In a society where enslavers and their agents used law, police, and private...
Abolitionist print links freedom to political rupture
📅 23 January 1887An article in “Propaganda abolicionista” called for ending slavery and connected the demand to the possibility of Paulista separation. The juxtaposition shows the political range of abolitionist...
Crônica Negra exposes plantation violence
📅 3 February 1887A “Crônica Negra” account described severe working conditions and bodily violence, including iron restraints and punishment. Such reporting challenged narratives of benevolent mastery and brought...
A legal argument contests the enslavement of Africans
📅 17 February 1887In “O Africano é livre,” A Redempção advanced a legal argument based on the 1831 prohibition of the transatlantic slave trade to challenge the enslavement of Africans. Abolitionists used the law’s...
Abolitionist reporting describes forced Sunday labor and restraint
📅 13 March 1887A March “Crônica Negra” described people forced to work on Sundays and subjected to iron restraints, hunger, and punishment in Campinas. Reporting such conditions confronted the claim that enslavers...
A freedom register records 56 manumissions tied to future service
📅 24 March 1887The “Álbum abolicionista” reported 56 manumissions associated with Anna Eufrosina and Domingos Leite Penteado, while the terms required four additional years of service. The distinction matters: a...
The paper records Rita’s unconditional manumission
📅 3 April 1887The “Álbum abolicionista” reported Rita’s manumission without a future-service condition. Publishing this case alongside conditional releases made the difference between formal freedom and freedom...
A manumission report reveals unequal terms of freedom
📅 15 May 1887A Redempção’s album recorded 47 manumissions in Cristina with differing terms: some unconditional, others tied to years of service or valuation arrangements. These varied conditions caution against...
A Caifaz letter celebrates resistance to a fugitive catcher
📅 28 August 1887A letter signed “Um caifaz” and titled “Bem feito” recounted the capture and punishment of a captain of the bush who had searched for fugitives. The episode is reported in a partisan newspaper and...
Satire attacks slave catchers and illegal re-enslavement
📅 18 September 1887A Redempção used satire to ridicule fugitive catchers and describe free people being reduced to slavery. The issue challenged the everyday policing that could blur the boundary between enslaved and...
The newspaper presents mass flight as breaking slaveholder control
📅 5 January 1888A Redempção argued that mass escapes and the “cleansing” of plantations had led enslavers to abandon claims over enslaved people. The editorial treats collective flight as a force that made the...
Abolitionist writing rejects the criminalization of escape
📅 29 January 1888An A Redempção article argued that flight should no longer be treated as a crime. The claim contested the legal and police framework that made an enslaved person’s self-liberation punishable while...
Serra Negra “freedom” resolution requires continued service
📅 12 February 1888A Redempção reproduced a resolution by farmers in Serra Negra declaring enslaved people free while requiring them to serve until 24 December 1889, with wages. This was conditional emancipation on...
A Redempção reports the murder of abolitionist Joaquim Firmino
📅 1 March 1888The newspaper published “O crime da Penha do Rio do Peixe,” reporting the murder of police delegate Joaquim Firmino de Araújo Lima, who had sheltered two people in an emancipation process and joined...
The paper revisits the Penha do Rio do Peixe murder
📅 4 March 1888A Redempção returned to the killing of Joaquim Firmino in an article titled “Penha do Rio do Peixe.” Repeated coverage made the murder a public indictment of the slaveholding order and its allies....
The paper calls for collective self-emancipation amid flight
📅 18 March 1888An editorial titled “Não se iludam os jornais” criticized proposals that would declare people free yet bind them to former owners’ labor. It described organized mass flight despite police blockades...