LEHA
PROJECTS
Cartographies of Freedom (2019-2024)
Based on archival investigations, it is in the phase of surveying maps and textual sources about material culture in quilombos. It is also an objective to locate archaeological sites, maps and textual sources of quilombos in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Maranhão and Mato Grosso. The project foresees future excavations (participation by Luis Claudio Symanski, including postgraduate studies in postgraduate studies in Archeology at UFMG) in some areas already identified in Mato Grosso. Research under the coordination of Isadora Mota and Flávio Gomes, including Princeton University and the postgraduate programs in History at UFRJ.
Cartographies of Freedom (2019-2024)
Under the name “Café com Açúcar” a research program on historical archeology on farms and plantations in the north sugar fluminense region (Campos de Goitacazes) and the Paraíba coffee valley (Valença). Bringing together a team of students, researchers and under the coordination of Luis Claudio Symanski and Flávio Gomes, archival research was carried out at the Campos dos Goitacazes State Archives, Metropolitan Curia, São Salvador Church and São Bento Monastery, excavating the religious order farms. , Benedictines (Fazenda de São Bento) and Jesuits (Fazenda do Colégio), both founded in the late 17th century and with a massive presence of enslaved indigenous and then African workers. Fazenda Santa Clara was also excavated, on the border of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, in Valença. Excavations were authorized in several phases by IPHAN, financed and supported in different stages by FAPEMIG, FAPERJ, CNPq, UFPR, UFRJ and UFMG. Research under the coordination of Luís Claudio Symanski and Flávio Gomes, including the postgraduate programs in History at UFRJ and the postgraduate studies in Archeology at UFMG.
Study on material culture, daily life, demography and the sociability of slavery and post-emancipation in the areas of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Maranhão and Rio de Janeiro in the 18th and 19th centuries. Funding from FAPERJ and CNPq, research under the coordination of Flávio Gomes
Plantation cartographies: demography and material culture of slavery and post-emancipation in Brazil (2010- current)
Cartographies of Freedom (2019-2024)
It is a set of research on cartography, maps and social history of quilombos, revolts, urban slavery and Africans etc. in Brazil and the Americas between the 16th to the 20th centuries. Analyzing the location of quilombos, mocambos, revolts, slaves' plots, plantation, urban dwellings, huts and various dimensions of urban culture and slave communities, several researches are carried out using historical maps and crossings with other textual and imagery sources. Research under the coordination of Isadora Mota and Flávio Gomes, including the postgraduate programs in History at UFRJ and Princeton University.
Cities, material culture and archaeological history
It is a set of research, teaching and training actions for students (undergraduate, master's and doctorate) in the themes of historical archeology, landscapes and material culture, with emphasis on the city of Rio de Janeiro, colonial and post-colonial. Various researches under the coordination of André Chevitarese and Flávio Gomes, including the postgraduate programs in Comparative History (PPGHC) and the postgraduate studies in Archeology at the National Museum (UFRJ).
Cities, escapes and Africans in Brazil (2018-)
Set of investigations in periodicals in Salvador (Golden Age and O Mercantil) and Rio de Janeiro (Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro, Jornal do Commércio and Diário do Rio de Janeiro) and also prison records to analyze patterns of escapes and fugitives slaves in the first half of the 19th century. How, when and why did captives flee? What are the patterns and characteristics of the escapes and profile of the fugitives? How did the slavery society suppress the escapes and interact with the fugitives, recruiters and supporters? What are the cultural and material dimensions of the universes created by fugitives and the surrounding society? These and other issues permeate a set of ongoing investigations with a perspective of social history, demography and quantitative standards. Research under the coordination of Claudio Pinheiro, João José Reis and Flávio Gomes, including the postgraduate programs in History at UFRJ and the postgraduate programs in History at UFBA.
Diseases, slavery and post-emancipation
It is a set of research, teaching and training actions for students (undergraduate, master's and doctorate). With funding from CNPq and FAPERJ, in addition to support from FIOCRUZ and UFRJ, undergraduate and post-graduate courses, digitalization of documentation (from Santa Casa de Misericórdia and other private collections of farms) and the publication of collections, thus bringing together investigations and researchers in the fields of Slavery, social history and disease history. Research under the coordination of Tânia Pimenta and Flávio Gomes, including the postgraduate programs in History at UFRJ and the postgraduate studies in History of Health and Diseases at FIOCRUZ.
Education, literacy and black intellectuals in Brazil
It is a set of research on cartography, maps, social history and biographies of black intellectuals and institutions in Rio de Janeiro. Analyzing the location of warehouses, schools, brotherhoods, religious spaces etc. several researches are carried out using historical maps and crossings with other textual and imagery sources. Research under the coordination of Antônio Carlos Higino da Silva, Higor Ferreira and Flávio Gomes, including the postgraduate programs in History at UFRJ and the Latu Sensu postgraduate program at Colégio Pedro II.
Spaces, power and surroundings: slave quarters, religiosity, demography, creolization and communities in the slave south-east (2018-2024)
Approaches to slave resistance typologies in the 19th century southeast. What are the patterns of revolts and insurrections in the second half of the 19th century? What are the characteristics of the religious practices of slaves? The importance of several revolts in the context of slavery in the Southeast of the second half of the 19th century, translates into the possibilities of focusing on central aspects of the organization of slave life and slave society. Themes such as trans-ethnic identities, organization of daily life in the slave quarters, religiosity and resistance, are considered in a broad study on the stately society and its mechanisms for maintaining order. It is intended to consider the patterns of formation of slave communities, between 1820 to 1880, relating them to the socio-demographic profile, ethnic identity, occupation and gender. It becomes essential to compare, based on the bibliography, the patterns of slave revolts with other areas of Brazil and also other slave regions and diaspora spaces in the 19th century, especially with Venezuela, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Cuba. In the case of slave Brazil, the intention is to identify the religious forms of the slave communities in the Paraíba Valley through police documentation and the news in the newspapers, as denunciations and rumors of revolts. Sources of diverse nature suggest approaches on the concepts of diseases, cures, festivals and ritual kinship in the slave quarters of slave areas, as well as kinship, family, slave ownership patterns. Research under the coordination of Maria Helena Machado and Flávio Gomes, including the graduate programs in History at UFRJ and the graduate programs in History at USP
Slavery in comparative perspectives, Brazil and the French Caribbean
Comparative research in Atlantic history on Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) and the French Caribbean (Guadeloupe and French Guiana). Searches in archives of Guadalupe, French Guiana, in Paris, Cayenne and Belém, in addition to Rio de Janeiro (including websites and digital documentation). Research under the coordination of Iamara Viana and Flávio Gomes
Ethnogenesis and frontiers in the Amazon, 18th-20th centuries
This is a set of research on the borders of the Eastern Amazon, involving enslaved populations, compulsory workers, indigenous populations, slavery and post-emancipation between the 21st and 21st centuries. Research has been carried out in archives in Rio de Janeiro, Belém and Cayenne (French Guiana). Research under the coordination of Rosa Acevedo, Márcio Meira and Flávio Gomes, including the postgraduate programs in History at UFRJ, postgraduate studies at the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG) and the Nucleus and High Studies of the Amazon at the Federal University of Pará ( NAEA / UFPA).
Gender, race and freedom in Atlantic slave societies, 18th and 19th centuries (2018-)
Since its beginnings, slavery in the Americas has embraced the partus sequitur ventrem as a fundamental principle, establishing the womb as the very locus of slavery. Contrary to the patriarchal principle that governed Atlantic lordly societies, within the scope of slavery, it was the maternal - or womb - condition that defined the captivity of the offspring. Its implementation implied the double appropriation of enslaved women; as workers, African women and their descendants - as well as their male counterparts - produced slave wealth; as women, their bodies were appropriated as reproducers of slavery. Producers and reproducers of slave wealth, for the enslaved, slavery implied strict control of their bodies; their biological and reproductive functions were widely invaded and exploited, becoming objects of constant slavery interventions that penetrated the most intimate spheres of these women. Widespread rape, conception, childbirth, the breastfeeding of their children or those of others and the creation of offspring were intimate spheres plagued by the slave interest, forcing women and mothers to twice resist the further exploitation of slavery. If the appropriation of the woman's body defined the possibilities of reproduction of slavery, emancipationist laws and projects also turned especially to the body / womb of the enslaved woman, defining it as a territory of dispute for possible ways of overcoming slavery. In Brazil, since the enactment of the 1871 law, the entire process of emancipation and abolition has been largely connected to the womb of enslaved women, liberating, liberating or still free. Manumission, labor contracts, custody of children, possibilities of autonomy, geographical movement and maintenance of family ties, among many aspects, the debates on the condition of Afro-descendent women crossed. Thinking about the wide scope of this historical question, we propose the organization of a book capable of exploring, in a gender, race and freedom perspective, multiple and complex aspects of the slavery of women in the process of emancipation both in Brazil and in other Atlantic slave societies , focusing especially on our problems in the discussions and laws of liberation of the womb in their broad thematic and temporal implications. Research under the coordination of Maria Helena Machado, Iamara Viana and Flávio Gomes including the postgraduate programs in History at UFRJ and the postgraduate studies in History at USP.
Atlantic ideas and Haitianism (2012-2023)
Study on the repercussions of the São Domingos Revolt (Haiti) in colonial and post-colonial slavery Brazil. Using bibliographic records, chroniclers, police sources, newspapers and memoirs, the research dives into the Atlantic world of protest and slave insurgency ideas. In different contexts - especially from 1791 to 1848 - rumors, denunciations and investigations emerge around ideas of slave sedition and political movement of black free sectors. In Brazil, called “Haitianism”, a political culture of racial mobilization arises, involving slave, free and including literate sectors. The ongoing research - Flávio Gomes and João Reis - for the preparation of a book has already appeared in several published articles. Research financed by CNPq, including the postgraduate programs in History at UFRJ and the postgraduate studies in History at UFBA.
Compulsory work, power and discourses in colonial and post-colonial spaces
Set of research, teaching and training actions for students (undergraduate, master's and doctorate) on the themes of work history, race, exclusion, Global History and their interconnections. Various meetings, seminars and research coordinated by Wallace Moraes, Paulo Fontes, Claudio Pinheiro, André Chevitarese and Flávio Gomes, including the following laboratories: Collective of Decolonial and Libertarian Research (CPDEL), Laboratory of History of Religious Experiences (LHER) and Laboratory for the Study of the History of the Worlds of Work (LEHMT), linked to the postgraduate programs in Comparative History (PPGHC), postgraduate studies in Social History (PPGHIS) and postgraduate studies in Philosophy (PPGF), all from UFRJ.
Uprisings and fugitive communities in the Americas: comparative perspectives
Communities of fugitive slave revolts were analyzed as hemispheric historical phenomena in an attempt to understand the contexts of their occurrences, rural and urban impacts, repression, power relations and manorial worlds. João Reis and Flávio Gomes - in addition to their research on slums and slave revolts - organized a collection bringing together more than a dozen researchers with research on slave revolts from the 17th century to the eve of Abolition, covering various areas and regions of Brazil . Research funded by CNPq. Javier Lavina (University of Barcelona), Isadora Mota (Princeton University) and Flávio Gomes (UFRJ) are organizing seminars and publications on comparative studies involving slave societies and societies with slaves in the south-south dimension.