A construção do “inimigo”: afircanos, polícia e do judiciário no século XIX

Abstract

This paper seeks to analyze the police and the judiciary acting in the first half of the 19th century, especially among the years of 1830 and 1835, with the growth of the fear about the “haitianização” of Brazil, since the Muslim rebellion, in 1835. In this aspect, men's speaking of the intellectual elite of the country's that claimed for the expulsion of Africans from Brazil were also analyzed. In this sense, it was analyzed the social effect of the deportation penalty, from the case study of the African freedman, Luís Xavier de Jesus. Furthermore, it was highlighted the "enemy" political construction in the country. It also tries to amplify the comprehension about the parliamentary debates that discussed about the black full citizenship in Brazil, in the context of 1823 constituent, as well as its effects on the 1824's granted Constitution. Finally, it highlighted the complex of the black presence in the military groups during the colonial era, essentials labor in the composition of those groups, which sometimes caused fear to their commands about the possibility of an imminent black uprising.