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A Redempção opens its columns to fugitive resistance
📅 2 Yanüari 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...
The paper names people who hunted fugitives
📅 9 Yanüari 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 Redempção expands its public naming of slave-catching
📅 20 Yanüari 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...
A Caifaz letter celebrates resistance to a fugitive catcher
📅 28 Ougùstùs 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...
The newspaper presents mass flight as breaking slaveholder control
📅 5 Yanüari 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...
The paper calls for collective self-emancipation amid flight
📅 18 Mart 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...