A liberdade em cartas de alforria: Campos de Palmas/PR 1860-1888

The present study aims to analyze the relationship between slavery and freedom in Campos de Palmas / PR in the period of 1860-1888, investigating the conditions of the manumission and the characteristics of the individuals who received the freedom. Thus, the main sources that will be analyzed and discussed in this work are 56 letters of manumission that granted 66 freedoms and 6 letters by the Sexagenarians Law, these are available to download at Palmas Notary Public and other letters are available by Public Archive of Paran?. In addition to these registrations, we sought more information about the freed in the ecclesiastical registrations available at Diocesan Court. To understand the trajectory and relationships of these individuals linked to slaver and that for a long time were "invisible" and also denied in this geographical space. In Campos de Palmas the slave presence was directly associated with the maintenance of the economy, the pastoral and subsistence society, being important to realize who were the individuals who received and why they were getting freedom, and who was the individuals who signed the manumission, as well as their interests in this action. From the qualitative analysis, we can raise various issues and possibilities about freed.O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar a rela??o entre escravid?o e liberdade nos Campos de Palmas/PR no per?odo de 1860-1888, investigando as condi??es da alforria e as caracter?sticas dos indiv?duos que receberam a liberdade. Assim, as principais fontes que ser?o analisadas e discutidas neste trabalho s?o 56 cartas de alforria que concederam 66 liberdades e 6 cartas pela Lei dos Sexagen?rios, estas encontram-se dispon?veis para pesquisa no Tabelionato de Notas de Palmas e outras cartas s?o disponibilizadas pelo Arquivo P?blico do Paran?. Al?m desses registros cartoriais, buscamos mais informa??es sobre os libertos nos registros eclesi?sticos dispon?veis na C?ria Diocesana, para compreender a trajet?ria e as rela??es desses indiv?duos ligados ? escravid?o e que por muito tempo ficaram ?invis?veis? e tamb?m foram negados neste espa?o geogr?fico. Nos Campos de Palmas a presen?a escrava estava diretamente associada ? manuten??o da economia, a sociedade pastoril e a de subsist?ncia, sendo importante perceber quem eram os sujeitos que receberam e porque estavam recebendo a liberdade e quem era o sujeito que assinava a alforria, assim como seus interesses nesta a??o. A partir da an?lise qualitativa dos dados, conseguimos levantar v?rias quest?es e possibilidades acerca dos alforriados