“Homens sem patrimônio” na crise do escravismo: (des)ordem social e resistências possíveis na Bahia (Bahia, 1870-1880)

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the escalation and social control actions by the government in the crisis of slavery time. We will see here the analize about the criminalization and attempts to discipline the time hampering economic alternatives from “men without assets”; enslaved; deserters, salaried workers and migrants, in the grammar of the State, people of the “common people”. Practices of thefts and robberies were increasingly being persecuted in the face of the discourse of safeguarding and threatening the property of good citizens. Groups in subaltern conditions are placed as an obstacle to public order and the world of work, therefore, they should be fought by the State, especially in a scenario of acute economic, political and social crisis. These subjects lived in negotiations and conflicts with powerful locals, during the uncertainties that the crisis of slavery generated. For this purpose, documents such as police registrations and judicial correspondence, reports from presidents and vice presidents of the province, a report by the Ministry of Justice, annals of legislative debates, criminal cases, newspapers, demographic censuses were analyzed.