“A pele que habito”: a indumentária de pessoas escravizadas no Recife (1827-1835)

Abstract

The main objective of the research is to investigate how people of both sexes, Creoles and Africans, subjected to slavery in the city of Recife, between 1827 and 1835, practiced dressing in general, as well as identifying possible clothing practices that were more noticeable among Creoles. and Africans, for this we compared some escape advertisements that allowed us to visualize these differences. Furthermore, we sought to understand how clothing could act as a strategic element during and after the escape. In the search for these answers, we used escape advertisements as the main documentation considering the chronological section mentioned. However, the documentary corpus of this research is also omposed of travellers' reports, legislation, municipal attitudes and some iconography. In this way, it was possible to identify that although there was no change in the way the subjects subjected to slavery dressed, there were differences in the adornments used by Africans and Creoles, of both sexes. This allows us to understand that there was a distinction between the enslaved community of Recife in the chronological scope of this research.