Article ID: CBB001420625

Escravos no purgatório: o leprosário do Tucunduba (Pará, século XIX) (2012)

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Henrique, Márcio Couto (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 19, suppl. 1
Issue: suppl. 1
Pages: 153-177


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Article in a supplementary issue, “Health and Slavery”
Language: Portuguese

The article analyzes the experience of the slaves interned at the Tucunduba Leprosarium in Belém, state of Pará during the nineteenth century. The slaves were freed once they showed the marks of their leprosy, and expectations were that they would submit to the segregation policy meant to keep them from contact with the rest of the population. The documentation produced by Santa Casa de Misericórdia hospital in Pará and by the province's political authorities reveals the strategies the slaves devised in response to this policy; they used their numerical predominance at the leprosarium to create a network of solidarity that allowed them to recreate their lives and stand in opposition to the type of nation that the era's hygienist theories envisioned.

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Authors & Contributors
Read, Ian
Adria L. Imada
Kim, S.
Khan, Shalini H. N.
Sousa, Claudia Rocha de
Scheer, Micaele Irene
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Quarantine
Hospitals and clinics
Infectious diseases
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Early modern
Places
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Philadelphia, PA
Hawaii (U.S.)
Great Britain
Amazon River Region (South America)
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