O império contra-ataca : a escravidão e a pena de morte em Pernambuco (1822-1860)

Abstract

This survey focuses on Brazilian slave society, having as essential point legal executions of slaves in Pernambuco, between the years 1860 and 1822. In colonial Brazil, the just death of her second Philippine requirements and after independence, she continued this in criminal code of 1830. And, as if only a law wasn't enough, another was established in June 10, 1835 to penalize with the concise death the owners’ murderers slaves. From the records of speeches of the sessions of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate brought the discussion parliamentary debates which have introduced the death as one of the penalties in criminal processes using Empire; and court orders of interpretation we identified facts and law enforcement could be distorted when the defendant was a slave and how the sentences almost always on the last penalty resulted; yet with journals and Chronicles of the time we analyze the rumbles of the agglomeration of individuals at the foot of the gallows and as if they gave some of the executions in Pernambuco. If the death penalty was not something daily, also was not as rare as well, because we capture some characters that were forgotten, lacking history. The triad criminal-punishment bondage began there is some time be elaborated in Brazilian history, however, when talking about the death penalty the slaves, we realize that the history of Brazilian Justice has much yet to be studied.