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Revista Brasileira de História ISSN 1806-9347 Post-Abolition in the Atlantic World The Revista Brasileira de História integrates the portals SciELO, Redalyc and Periódicos Capes, accessible through the following URLs: http://www.scielo.br/rbh • http://redalyc.uaemex.mx • HTTP://www.periodicos.capes.gov.br Indexing data bases: Scopus, ISI Web of Knowledge, ABC-CLIO, Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) Revista Brasileira de História – Official Organ of the National Association of History. São Paulo, AN PUH, vol. 35, no 69, Jan.-June 2015. Semiannual ISSN: 1806-9347 CO DEN: 0151/RBHIEL Correspondence: ANPUH – Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 338 Cidade Universitária. CEP 05508-000 – São Paulo – SP Phone/Fax: (11) 3091-3047 – e-mail: [email protected] Revision (Portuguese): Armando Olivetti Desktop publishing: Flavio Peralta (Estúdio O.L.M.) Revista Brasileira de História Post-Abolition in the Atlantic World ANPUH Revista Brasileira de História no 69 Founder: Alice P. Canabrava August 2013 – July 2015 Editor in charge Alexandre Fortes, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçu, RJ – Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Editorial committee (RBH) Alexandre Fortes, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçu, RJ – Brasil Ana Teresa Marques Gonçalves, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO – Brasil Carla Simone Rodeghero, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS – Brasil Cláudia Maria Ribeiro Viscardi, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG – Brasil Fátima Martins Lopes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN – Brasil Frederico de Castro Neves, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE – Brasil George Evergton Sales Souza, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA – Brasil Hebe Maria da Costa Mattos Gomes de Castro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ – Brasil Julio Pimentel Pinto, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP – Brasil Lucília Neves de Almeida Delgado, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF – Brasil Marluza Marques Harres, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, RS – Brasil Marcelo Cândido da Silva, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP – Brasil Regina Beatriz Guimarães Neto, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE – Brasil Selva Guimarães Fonseca, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG – Brasil Tânia Regina de Luca, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Assis, SP – Brasil Advisory committee (RBH) Adilson José Francisco, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, MT – Brasil Altemar da Costa Muniz, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Quixadá, CE – Brasil Célia Costa Cardoso, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, SE – Brasil Claudio Umpierre Carlan, Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, MG – Brasil Edilza Joana Oliveira Fontes, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA – Brasil Élio Chaves Flores, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB – Brasil Eurelino Teixeira Coelho Neto, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA – Brasil Fabiana de Souza Fredrigo, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO – Brasil Hélio Sochodolak, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Irati, PR – Brasil Hideraldo Lima da Costa, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM – Brasil Jaime de Almeida, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF – Brasil João Batista Bitencourt, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, MA – Brasil Luís Augusto Ebling Farinatti, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS – Brasil Luzia Margareth Rago, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP – Brasil Maria Augusta de Castilho, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, Campo Grande, MS – Brasil Maria Teresa Santos Cunha, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC – Brasil Osvaldo Batista Acioly Maciel, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL – Brasil Editorial Assistant (RBH) Carolina Bittencourt Mendonça, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçu, RJ – Brasil ANPUH and the Revista Brasileira de História are not responsible for the opinions present at the published articles. The Revista Brasileira de História publishes original articles in tune with the advances of contemporary historiographical production. It aims to act as a vehicle of promotion of historical research, writing and teaching practices. http://www.anpuh.org/revistabrasileira/public CONTEnts Foreword Alexandre Fortes and Hebe Mattos Dossier: Post-Abolition in the Atlantic World In the rhythm of Vagalume: black cultures, dance associations, and nationality in the writing of Francisco Guimarães (1904-1933) Leonardo Affonso de Miranda Pereira Revisiting “Family and Transition”: Family, land, and social mobility in the post- abolition period: Rio de Janeiro (1888-1940) Carlos Eduardo Coutinho da Costa Mr. Citizen Manoel Inácio and the conquest of citizenship: the black peasantry of Morro Alto and the Republic that was Rodrigo de Azevedo Weimer The political realm of Teodoro Sampaio and Rui Barbosa: strategies and alliances made by colored men in Brazil (1880-1919) Wlamyra Albuquerque Fields of Post-Abolition: Labor and ‘black’ experience among coffee workers in Rio de Janeiro (1931-1964) André Cicalo The legacy of Rosário: worker associativism and the silence of ethnic-racial identity in the post-abolition period, Laguna (SC) Thiago Juliano Sayão The Dangers of White Blacks: mulatto culture, class, and eugenic beauty in the post- emancipation (USA, 1900-1920) Giovana Xavier da Conceição Nascimento The legacy of slave songs in the United States and Brazil: musical dialogues in the post- emancipation period Martha Abreu Articles Church-State relations in a working-class town during the military dictatorship Alejandra Luisa Magalhães Estevez A strike which endangered national security: the case of sugar and the struggle of workers for better living conditions Felipe Augusto dos Santos Ribeiro Active Catholic intellectuals in Brazil in the 1930s Helena Isabel Mueller A Ordem magazine and the ‘communist scourge’: on the border between the political, intellectual, and religious spheres Marco Antônio Machado Lima Pereira “We identify with civilization, within civilization”: Urban self-images in the Sertões of Bahia Valter Gomes Santos de Oliveira Negotiated division: the debates about Paraná province and the Imperial representative system, 1843 Vitor Marcos Gregório Interview Eric Foner Hebe Mattos and Martha Abreu Reviews Labor, Environmental History, and Sugar Cane in Cuba and Brazil Aviva Chomsky Assis, Arthur Alfaix. A What is History for? Johann Gustav Droysen and the functions of historiography Walkiria Oliveira Silva Reis Filho, Daniel Aarão. Luís Carlos Prestes: um revolucionário entre dois mundos Jean Rodrigues Sales FOREWORD The recognition of slaves and freed persons as historic subjects has ended up influencing studies about the destiny of those who were enslaved and their descendants in former slave societies after the legal abolition of slavery. While in Brazil the 1980s represented a landmark in the historiography of slavery, we can see the 2000s as being decisive for the historiography of the forms, condi- tions, and concepts of liberty in the post-abolition period. The production of books and documentaries, the holding of national and international events, and the formation of research groups using the terms ‘post-emancipation’ and ‘post-abolition’ from the north to the south of the country, are evidence of a significant field of investigation, committed to reconstituting trajectories, pro- cesses, and experiences of the liberty of the black population in Brazil and in the Americas after the legal prohibition of slavery. Due to the amplitude of the field many questions emerge. What does this signify about the post-abolition period as a historical problem? What are the meanings and limits of the legal revocation of slavery in the old slaveholding Atlantic societies? Can precise constructions be built of what this post-aboli- tion period was? What are the meanings of the formal abolition of slavery? Are post-abolition and post-emancipation synonyms or distinct forms of looking at and researching the experiences of liberty and the legal meanings of the abo- lition of slavery? When did the post-abolition period start and end? What is the place of experiences of becoming free and of abolitionism in the nineteenth century? How have the politicization of the memory of slavery and the study of the present time contributed to delimit their chronological borders? In what ways does working with various concepts, sources, and methodologies ques- tion the classical thesis that blacks were ‘abandoned to their own luck,’ bring- ing to the center of the discussion debates related to the rights of citizenship, Revista Brasileira de História. São Paulo, v. 35, nº 69, June 2015. Available at: http://www.scielo.br/rbh http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-93472015v35n69001 Foreword the worlds of free labor, racialization, racism, social mobility, migrations, gen- der relations, generations, access to land, education, and black and indigenous social relations in local, transnational, or comparative approaches? These are some of the questions focused on by the authors of the works published in the thematic dossier “Post-Abolition in the Atlantic World,” which is part of this issue of Revista Brasileira de História. Leonardo Affonso de Miranda Pereira’s work opens the dossier with “In the rhythm of Vagalume: black cultures, dance associations, and nationality in the writing of Francisco Guimarães (1904-1933).”