Infância das crianças negras e escravas no Brasil: aproximações com realidades contemporâneas

Abstract

Slavery was characterized by social oppression, based on racist and religious knowledge, which left terrifying stigmatizing marks on a people, who in spite of making up for the majority of the Brazilian society, are severely affected by the consequences of the dehumanization imposed on them. The present study tries to understand the visibility of the childhood of black and slave children in the history of Brazil in the country’s colonial period and Empire and its unfolding in contemporary times. The methodology involves a theoretical study, based on the systematization of works of Brazilian history and sociology with emphasis on knowledge about childhood. The childhood of black and slave children was very different from other types of childhood, and the inheritance of this childhood under slavery is evident in the reality of the black population seen in social indicators such as education, poverty and violence. The intention of this paper is to contribute to the deconstruction of a social system that denies the consequences of slavery, keeping black children at a disadvantage, and reissuing the oppression of the slavery system.