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ARTICLE • rev. hist. (183) • 2024 • https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2024.217232   copy

WHERE DID THE MONEY FROM THE EMANCIPATION FUND GO AFTER ABOLITION? PROJECTS, PROTESTS AND DISPUTES (1884-1890)1 1 Article not published on a preprint platform. All sources and bibliography used are referenced in the article. I would like to thank Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto for the thought-provoking questions that led me to write this article and I would also like to thank Antonio Luigi Negro, known as Gino, to whom I owe the familiarity of the bibliographical repertoire used throughout this research. Thanks also to Wagner Magalhães for the translation.

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Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the recent public debate about the participation of the Brazilian state and financial institutions in the enslavement of Africans and their descendants, by pointing out the destination of the money that constituted the national emancipation fund in the immediate post-abolition period. There were projects, protests and disputes over the money which, at first, was intended to help the enslaved conquer their freedom and which, after May 13, was contested. It shows the transformations that this fund has undergone since its creation in 1871, the implementation of a tax for its expansion, as well as following the money, identifying beneficiaries, the burdened and the ignored. The annals of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Empire, legislation, ministerial reports, periodicals, cartoons, speeches and period books were consulted.

Keywords
emancipation fund; slavery; emancipation; immigration; post-abolition

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