ABSTRACT
This work aims to investigate aspects of the memory of the abolition of slavery as it was
treated by the press of Santa Catarina, the Historical and Geographical Institute of Santa
Catarina (IHGSC) and the Historical and Geographical Institute of Brazil (IHGB) on the
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of that date, celebrated in 1938. Taking into account the
profound influence of the slave past in developing the economy and society of Brazil, the
importance that discussions about race and nationality had played in the intellectual
environment of Brazil along the República Velha and the intense upheavals that altered the
landscape of Brazilian politics in the 1930s, the date of the fiftieth anniversary proved to be a
particularly auspicious occasion for reflection on memory and the national past. By reading
reviews and news stories published by newspapers of Santa Catarina, as well as speeches at
formal sittings in the Institutes, it will be attempted to follow the lines of thought that guided
the interpretations and representations made in that year of 1938 regarding the slavery in
Brazil and the emancipationist process during the second half of the nineteenth century,
culminating with the signing of the law of May 13
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, 1888. By crossing these sources with
studies focused on analyzing the features of the Brazilian abolitionism and its development
during the early years of the republic, the objective is to examine how the memory of a
troubled period in which legal slavery in Brazil was extinguished, had been evolving and
being re-signified throughout the republican period, until the years of Vargas and the Estado
Novo in 1938.
Keywords
Santa Catarina; Abolition; Memory; Fiftieth Anniversary of the Abolition; Estado Novo;
Commemorations; IHGSC; IHGB;
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