Abstract: In light of the history of the education of the black population, we will reflect on the importance of 'color' in the nineteenth-century magisterium from the teaching trajectory of Graciliano Fontino Lordão, son of a black woman and a Catholic priest. Sources such as books of memorialists, press and documents of the administration with contributions of the social history of education and microhistory enables to approach his experiences, demonstrating they were permeated by his black origin, like other men who ascended socially and educationally in a society in which the slave order prevailed, informing about different possibilities of being black in Brazilian empire.
Keywords:
history of education; black teacher; Paraíba; Empire of Brazil