Leva, que a mim te deixo furtar: roubo de escravos em Uberaba – MG na segunda metade do século XIX.

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the cases of “slave robberies” that happened in Uberaba - MG during the nineteenth century. The goal is to bring these cases of theft closer to the experience of “precarious liberty” in nineteenth-century Brazil and to establish the relationship of these crimes with the prohibition of transatlantic trafficking in 1850 and the consolidation of internal captive trafficking. In addition, it is also intended to analyze the cases of " let yourself steal" as forms of resistance and strategies to achieve better living conditions on the part of the defendants and especially the enslaved. The central materials for these reviews will be a series of 18 criminal cases filed in the Uberaba Public Archive (APU).