O negro no imaginário campista no auge do movimento abolicionista nas páginas do Monitor campista e do Vinte e cinco de março (1884-1888)

Abstract

This work aims to analyze how black people were represented in the final years of slavery by two very different newspapers from Campos dos Goytacazes. Vinte e Cinco de Março, an abolitionist newspaper whose editor, Luiz Carlos de Lacerda, was accused of sheltering slaves, ordering the burning of sugarcane fields, among other transgressions, advocated the immediate liberation of slaves without compensation, defending them and denouncing slave owners. Monitor Campista, a newspaper aligned with the establishment, was emancipationist, supposedly neutral, full of advertisements involving the purchase, sale, rental and escape of slaves. Emancipationist, since it was not well seen to openly defend slavery, and because it advocated gradualism in the process of ending slavery, some form of compensation, so that slave owners would have their interests protected. Through a comparative perspective, the aim is to demonstrate the similarities and differences between the newspapers, how they influenced each other, and how black agency and paternalism appeared in both.