Manifestations of Personhood. Self-Descriptions of Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

人格的表现。

• 批准号: 384353849
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Ulrich Mücke
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich Globalgeschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/384353849?language=en
• 关键词: Manifestations; Personhood.; Self; Descriptions; Slaves

The project analyzes self-descriptions of enslaved people in nineteenth-century Brazil. It focuses on statements of the enslaved about their own persons in auto-documents, i.e. documents where people give evidence about themselves. Which role did bondage play in self-portrayals of enslaved people? How important were gender, social relationships, religion, work, material conditions, and legal settings? The project is part of a new social history of slavery in Brazil which puts the enslaved in the center of interest. In recent years, a growing number of historians have understood the enslaved as protagonists of their own history. Accordingly, auto-documents of enslaved people became more important for historical research. However, research has shown little interest in the way enslaved people described themselves. Analyzing the multifaceted statements found in self-descriptions of enslaved people, this project will benefit from methodological tools well-established in European research on autobiography and auto-documents. In so doing, the project aims to contribute to an understanding of the history of slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil which does not reduce the enslaved human beings to their state of bondage.

该项目分析了19世纪巴西被奴役人民的自我描述。它集中在自动文件中被奴役的人关于他们自己的人的陈述，即人们提供关于他们自己的证据的文件。在对被奴役的人的自我刻画中，奴役扮演了什么角色？性别、社会关系、宗教、工作、物质条件和法律环境有多重要？该项目是巴西一部新的奴隶制社会历史的一部分，该历史将被奴役的人置于利益的中心。近年来，越来越多的历史学家将被奴役的人理解为他们自己历史的主角。相应地，被奴役人民的自动文献在历史研究中变得更加重要。然而，研究表明，人们对被奴役的人描述自己的方式几乎没有兴趣。分析在被奴役的人的自我描述中发现的多方面的陈述，这个项目将受益于在欧洲关于自传和自动文件的研究中确立的方法论工具。通过这样做，该项目旨在促进对19世纪巴西奴隶制历史的了解，而不是将被奴役的人减少到他们的奴役状态。