A Redempção expands its public naming of slave-catching

Law no. 3,310 of 15 October 1886 revoked provisions imposing the sentence of lashes on enslaved defendants, including part of the 1835 law that had imposed this punishment for certain offenses. It...

The 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...

A 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...

In 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...

The 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...

An 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...

A “Crônica Negra” account described severe working conditions and bodily violence, including iron restraints and punishment. Such reporting challenged narratives of benevolent mastery and brought...

In “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...

A 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...

The “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...