José do Patrocínio : a escravidão combatida com a escrita (1880 a 1889)

Abstract

In this article it is deprecated to analyze the writings of José do Patrocínio and his strong arguments through the writing in defense of the enslaved peoples and the abolitionist cause, and how he related to historical agents, slave farmers, political elite and emperor Dom Pedro II, seeking complacement and awareness of society at the time, he encouraged his criticism of them, and how he sought to broaden his understanding of the actions or not of these agents, further justifying his struggle for the liberation of the enslaved. Initially we will make a brief passage on the history of the press and the press in history, understand the challenge of reconciling the two disciplines, the relationship of meetings and mismatches between history and the press in Brazil, an approach of authors on the enslaved in the periodicals of some states of Brazil, with the aim of showing the various approaches used by José do Patrocínio in the cause of abolition.