Nas entrelinhas dos processos criminais: trabalho, sociabilidade e cotidiano no Baixo Amazonas (1840-1850)

Abstract

With an eye on the sociability of the subaltern class of workers in the Lower Amazon, the objective of this work is to investigate and understand how family, love, and friendship ties were important in the daily life of subjects inserted in a society immersed in the dynamics of capitalism. The historiography focused on the world of work points out that multiple work relations were established and reconfigured in various spaces, and, in the Amazon of the mid-nineteenth century, workers with different profiles and backgrounds lived in constant contact. These workers usually sought ways to reduce the hardship of their labor and found support and support in the sociability relationships they built daily, which usually became a support network in times of conflict and resistance. The spatial and temporal cut-off established here, the 1840s and 1850s, is related to the economic scenario, but also to the political context experienced in the Lower Amazon region, mainly as a result of the Cabanagem movement between 1835 and 1840, which had political and social consequences in the following years. The sources used are three criminal cases from the district of Santarem, available at the Centro de Documentação Histórica do Baixo Amazonas, the Código Criminal do Império (1830), and the Código do Processo Criminal do Império (1832).