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In this communication I analyze some aspects of the policy of favoring the manumission of slaves in Brazil through the Emancipation Fund.

Paper long abstract

In this communication I analyze some aspects of the policy of favoring the manumission of slaves in Brazil through the Emancipation Fund. For this research data were used mainly the Province of Bahia. The researched documentation allowed to know the intense mobilization of the slaves in search of the manumission through one of the means made available by the Brazilian legislation of the last decades of the slave system. In printed and handwritten sources (correspondences between public authorities, petitions, news in the newspapers, etc.) I found several evidences to discuss the commitment of the proprietary class and the enslaved when resorting to this resource; and, on the conflicts and debates generated between the members of the "classification board", the "liberandos" and their owners.