POR UMA HISTÓRIA DO NEGRO EM ITAPIRA: ANTIGA VILA DA PENHA DO RIO DO PEIXE (1869 - 1888)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the official history of the city of Itapira, formerly Vila da Penha do Rio do Peixe, located in West Paulista, whose version highlights Portuguese-Brazilians and immigrants, but does not include other significant sections of the population. For that, we investigated a documentation referring to the period of slavery (1869-1888) in this locality, with the purpose of problematizing the invisibilization, by the official history of the presence of enslaved and freed black women and men in the region. The documents consist of birth, marriage and death records, as well as letters of freedom and services. These sources were recently discovered amid a collection of Jácomo Mandato, a local journalist and memorialist, in the work Escravidão em Itapira (2015) - the first book published in the city with this theme. Our cut goes from 1869 to 1888, because it was the delimitation found among the materials capable of being analyzed at the time of this research.