Apresentação

Abstract

ForewordThe recognition of slaves and freed persons as historic subjects has ended up influencing studies about the destiny of those who were enslaved and their descendants in former slave societies after the legal abolition of slavery. While in Brazil the 1980s represented a landmark in the historiography of slavery, we can see the 2000s as being decisive for the historiography of the forms, conditions, and concepts of liberty in the post-abolition period. The production of books and documentaries, the holding of national and international events, and the formation of research groups using the terms 'post-emancipation' and 'post-abolition' from the north to the south of the country, are evidence of a significant field of investigation, committed to reconstituting trajectories, processes, and experiences of the liberty of the black population in Brazil and in the Americas after the legal prohibition of slavery.Due