Maria Helena P T Machado
Biographic Data
| ID | 678914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Helena P T Machado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Helena P T |
| FAMILY NAME | Machado |
| SIGNATURE | MACHADO M H P T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8030-1705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Freedwoman and Her Enslaved Children: Terror, Motherhood, and Death in Northern Brazil amid Slavery’s Decline
This article examines the entanglement of enslaved motherhood and the reproduction of servitude in the late nineteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the disintegration of legal and demographic structures that sustained slavery in Brazil. Due to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, enslaved women were central to the perpetuation of bondage across generations. Following the 1871 Free Womb Law, São Luís, the capital of Maranhão in norther…
On the consequences of childbirth: Obstetrics/gynaecology, comparative anatomy and racial theories in 19th century France and Brazil
The following paper is centred on an analysis of comparative studies of the human pelvis developed over the 19th century by mostly French natural scientists, physical anthropologists, students of the human anatomy and doctors engaged in the initial stages of the emerging fields of gynaecology and obstetrics. As this paper will argue, there was considerable overlap between these specialisations, producing a fundamentally masculine, Eurocentric and…
Body, Gender, and Identity on the Threshold of Abolition: A Tale Doubly Told by Benedicta Maria da Ilha, a Free Woman, and Ovídia, a Slave
This chapter traces the parallel life stories spun by a single woman – “Benedicta” to some and “Ovídia” to others – in pursuit of freedom in 1880s Brazil. Building upon a vast historiography, it uses a single microhistory to recuperate the social practices, ways of life, and world visions that resided below the surface of judicial testimony. In so doing, it opens an important window through which we can apprehend the ways in which women on the bo…
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans, over four times as many as any other American destination. Comparatively speaking, Brazil received 40% of the total number of Africans brought to the Americas, while the US received approximately 10%. Due to this huge influx of Africans, today Brazil’s African-descended population is larger than the p…
Reclamando a liberdade: Mulheres em busca de emancipação em sociedades escravistas nas Américas (séculos XVIII e XIX)
Este dossiê objetiva compreender como mulheres negras construíram projetos de autonomia, próprios e de outras pessoas, e como enfrentaram desafios impostos à consecução dos mesmos e conceberam a liberdade a ser usufruída após a emancipação. Interessa-se, igualmente, por discutir, em crivo crítico, a circulação de padrões de feminilidade, raça e gênero em sociedades escravistas no decorrer dos processos de abolição - contemplando, nesse sentido, a…
Between two Beneditos: Enslaved wet-nurses amid slavery’s decline in southeast Brazil
Maria Firmina dos Reis, Nineteenth-Century Maranhão (Brazil)
Maria Firmina dos Reis was born in São Luiz do Maranhão, a remote northern province of the Brazilian Empire, probably in 1825. The daughter of a black father and a white mother, and a self-taught woman who had never received formal education, Maria Firmina became the youngest elementary teacher in a newly founded local school. In 1859, she published the novel Ursula and became the first black woman to publish a literary text in Brazil. Ursula not…
Maria Firmina dos Reis: Escrita Íntima Na Construção Do Si Mesmo
Este artigo se centra na análise de "Álbum", caderno de escritos íntimos de Maria Firmina dos Reis, em busca de refletir sobre a construção da individualidade e subjetividade de uma mulher negra, romancista, em meados do século XIX, no Maranhão. Para tal, o artigo propõe um recorte teórico, reconstitui o contexto social da romancista e apresenta trechos de suas reflexões privadas constantes de seu "Álbum
Special issue of Women’s History Review —Mothering slaves: Motherhood, childlessness and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Rio de Janeiro, 1845: Inacia, an enslaved woman, gives birth to triplets, attended by a white doctor at the request of her slaveholder. All her babies die during their first night.Havana, 1854: a f
Mothering slaves: Comparative perspectives on motherhood, childlessness, and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Kingston, Jamaica, 1831: A newspaper published by free men of colour which campaigns for free coloured civil rights publishes a letter attacking free women of colour for their inadequate motherhood
Between two Beneditos: Enslaved wet-nurses amid slavery’s decline in southeast Brazil
This article discusses a series of questions related to the presence of enslaved women, female slaves working toward contractual or bequeathed freedom, and freedwomen in the domestic sphere in the final years of slavery in Brazil, with an initial emphasis on the contradictions between medical and sanitarian discourses that promoted a new, bourgeois vision of the home and the continued existence of the master-slave relationship and tutelary relati…
Migrations dans l'arrière-pays, formes d'occupation des territoires et quilombos itinérants à São Paulo (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)
Cet article vise à dessiner un cadre large pour rendre compte des communautés d'esclaves fugitifs (quilombos) dans la province puis l'État de São Paulo du XVIe siècle à aujourd'hui. Dans cette perspective, il examine des sources documentaires nombreuses et variées et une large bibliographie à la recherche d'indices permettant de retrouver les processus de formation et de désagrégation de ces communautés qui, jusqu'ici, ont plutôt été considérées …
Virtudes e limites de uma escravidão quantificada: A escravidão em Santos do século XIX
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(Re)construindo a imagem de Renty: Dos daguerreótipos de Agassiz à campanha De-Mounting Agassiz
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Corpo, gênero e identidade no limiar da abolição: A história de Benedicta Maria Albina da Ilha ou Ovídia, escrava (Sudeste, 1880)
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A ciência norte-americana visita a Amazônia: "Entre O Criacionismo Cristão E O Poligenismo "Degeneracionista
From Slave Rebels to Strikebreakers: The Quilombo of Jabaquara and the Problem of Citizenship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This article reexamines the historical trajectory of escaped slaves who, encouraged by the abolitionist propaganda of the 1880s, established themselves in the runaway slave communities of Jabaquara and Pai Felipe, remaining in these quilombos through the decade that followed the abolition of slavery in Brazil on May 13, 1888. Both quilombos were located within the city limits of Santos, which served as the major port for coffee exports from São P…
A Sensualidade Como Caminho. Notas Sobre Diários E Viagens
Tupians and Turanians: Hypotheses on the origins of man and civilization in the Americas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Este artigo tem como ponto central o estudo das teorias a respeito da origem do homem americano e da antigüidade da civilização nas Américas, no contexto intelectual do século XIX e primeiras décadas do XX. Seu objetivo é mapear estas teorias no ambiente intelectual europeu e norte-americano para, em seguida, as vincular às discussões latino-americanas e brasileiras a respeito do grau de desenvolvimento, de civilização e de aperfeiçoamento das po…
Os Olhos do Império. Relatos de viagem e transculturação
O descontínuo na história da cultura colonial e pós-colonial: Acidente Ou Fatalidade
O objetivo deste texto é apresentar algumas discussões de autores como Homi Bhabha, Mary Louise Pratt, Serge Gruzinski e Renato Rosaldo, que permitem pensar em formas alternativas de enfocar o tempo, a continuidade e descontinuidades da história
Escravos e cometas: Movimentos Sociais Na Década Da Abolição
debate sobre a proposta do Conselheiro Nabuco sobre a revogação do artigo 60, a substituição desta pela prisão com trabalhos, se aplicada a escravos, tomar-se
Nada além da liberdade. A emancipação e seu legado
FONER, Eric. Nada além da liberdade. A emancipação e seu legado. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1988. 183 p
From Slave Rebels to Strikebreakers: The Quilombo of Jabaquara and the Problem of Citizenship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This article reexamines the historical trajectory of escaped slaves who, encouraged by the abolitionist propaganda of the 1880s, established themselves in the runaway slave communities of Jabaquara and Pai Felipe, remaining in these quilombos through the decade that followed the abolition of slavery in Brazil on May 13, 1888. Both quilombos were located within the city limits of Santos, which served as the major port for coffee exports from São P…
Mothering slaves: Comparative perspectives on motherhood, childlessness, and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Kingston, Jamaica, 1831: A newspaper published by free men of colour which campaigns for free coloured civil rights publishes a letter attacking free women of colour for their inadequate motherhood
Corpo, gênero e identidade no limiar da abolição: A história de Benedicta Maria Albina da Ilha ou Ovídia, escrava (Sudeste, 1880)
.
Special issue of Women’s History Review —Mothering slaves: Motherhood, childlessness and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Rio de Janeiro, 1845: Inacia, an enslaved woman, gives birth to triplets, attended by a white doctor at the request of her slaveholder. All her babies die during their first night.Havana, 1854: a f
Between two Beneditos: Enslaved wet-nurses amid slavery’s decline in southeast Brazil
This article discusses a series of questions related to the presence of enslaved women, female slaves working toward contractual or bequeathed freedom, and freedwomen in the domestic sphere in the final years of slavery in Brazil, with an initial emphasis on the contradictions between medical and sanitarian discourses that promoted a new, bourgeois vision of the home and the continued existence of the master-slave relationship and tutelary relati…
Maria Firmina dos Reis: Escrita Íntima Na Construção Do Si Mesmo
Este artigo se centra na análise de "Álbum", caderno de escritos íntimos de Maria Firmina dos Reis, em busca de refletir sobre a construção da individualidade e subjetividade de uma mulher negra, romancista, em meados do século XIX, no Maranhão. Para tal, o artigo propõe um recorte teórico, reconstitui o contexto social da romancista e apresenta trechos de suas reflexões privadas constantes de seu "Álbum
A ciência norte-americana visita a Amazônia: "Entre O Criacionismo Cristão E O Poligenismo "Degeneracionista
Nada além da liberdade. A emancipação e seu legado
FONER, Eric. Nada além da liberdade. A emancipação e seu legado. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1988. 183 p
Escravos e cometas: Movimentos Sociais Na Década Da Abolição
debate sobre a proposta do Conselheiro Nabuco sobre a revogação do artigo 60, a substituição desta pela prisão com trabalhos, se aplicada a escravos, tomar-se
O descontínuo na história da cultura colonial e pós-colonial: Acidente Ou Fatalidade
O objetivo deste texto é apresentar algumas discussões de autores como Homi Bhabha, Mary Louise Pratt, Serge Gruzinski e Renato Rosaldo, que permitem pensar em formas alternativas de enfocar o tempo, a continuidade e descontinuidades da história
Os Olhos do Império. Relatos de viagem e transculturação
Tupians and Turanians: Hypotheses on the origins of man and civilization in the Americas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Este artigo tem como ponto central o estudo das teorias a respeito da origem do homem americano e da antigüidade da civilização nas Américas, no contexto intelectual do século XIX e primeiras décadas do XX. Seu objetivo é mapear estas teorias no ambiente intelectual europeu e norte-americano para, em seguida, as vincular às discussões latino-americanas e brasileiras a respeito do grau de desenvolvimento, de civilização e de aperfeiçoamento das po…
A Sensualidade Como Caminho. Notas Sobre Diários E Viagens
From Slave Rebels to Strikebreakers: The Quilombo of Jabaquara and the Problem of Citizenship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This article reexamines the historical trajectory of escaped slaves who, encouraged by the abolitionist propaganda of the 1880s, established themselves in the runaway slave communities of Jabaquara and Pai Felipe, remaining in these quilombos through the decade that followed the abolition of slavery in Brazil on May 13, 1888. Both quilombos were located within the city limits of Santos, which served as the major port for coffee exports from São P…
A ciência norte-americana visita a Amazônia: "Entre O Criacionismo Cristão E O Poligenismo "Degeneracionista
Corpo, gênero e identidade no limiar da abolição: A história de Benedicta Maria Albina da Ilha ou Ovídia, escrava (Sudeste, 1880)
.
(Re)construindo a imagem de Renty: Dos daguerreótipos de Agassiz à campanha De-Mounting Agassiz
nulo
Virtudes e limites de uma escravidão quantificada: A escravidão em Santos do século XIX
.
Migrations dans l'arrière-pays, formes d'occupation des territoires et quilombos itinérants à São Paulo (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)
Cet article vise à dessiner un cadre large pour rendre compte des communautés d'esclaves fugitifs (quilombos) dans la province puis l'État de São Paulo du XVIe siècle à aujourd'hui. Dans cette perspective, il examine des sources documentaires nombreuses et variées et une large bibliographie à la recherche d'indices permettant de retrouver les processus de formation et de désagrégation de ces communautés qui, jusqu'ici, ont plutôt été considérées …
Special issue of Women’s History Review —Mothering slaves: Motherhood, childlessness and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Rio de Janeiro, 1845: Inacia, an enslaved woman, gives birth to triplets, attended by a white doctor at the request of her slaveholder. All her babies die during their first night.Havana, 1854: a f
Mothering slaves: Comparative perspectives on motherhood, childlessness, and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies
Kingston, Jamaica, 1831: A newspaper published by free men of colour which campaigns for free coloured civil rights publishes a letter attacking free women of colour for their inadequate motherhood
Between two Beneditos: Enslaved wet-nurses amid slavery’s decline in southeast Brazil
This article discusses a series of questions related to the presence of enslaved women, female slaves working toward contractual or bequeathed freedom, and freedwomen in the domestic sphere in the final years of slavery in Brazil, with an initial emphasis on the contradictions between medical and sanitarian discourses that promoted a new, bourgeois vision of the home and the continued existence of the master-slave relationship and tutelary relati…
Maria Firmina dos Reis: Escrita Íntima Na Construção Do Si Mesmo
Este artigo se centra na análise de "Álbum", caderno de escritos íntimos de Maria Firmina dos Reis, em busca de refletir sobre a construção da individualidade e subjetividade de uma mulher negra, romancista, em meados do século XIX, no Maranhão. Para tal, o artigo propõe um recorte teórico, reconstitui o contexto social da romancista e apresenta trechos de suas reflexões privadas constantes de seu "Álbum
Between two Beneditos: Enslaved wet-nurses amid slavery’s decline in southeast Brazil
Maria Firmina dos Reis, Nineteenth-Century Maranhão (Brazil)
Maria Firmina dos Reis was born in São Luiz do Maranhão, a remote northern province of the Brazilian Empire, probably in 1825. The daughter of a black father and a white mother, and a self-taught woman who had never received formal education, Maria Firmina became the youngest elementary teacher in a newly founded local school. In 1859, she published the novel Ursula and became the first black woman to publish a literary text in Brazil. Ursula not…
Body, Gender, and Identity on the Threshold of Abolition: A Tale Doubly Told by Benedicta Maria da Ilha, a Free Woman, and Ovídia, a Slave
This chapter traces the parallel life stories spun by a single woman – “Benedicta” to some and “Ovídia” to others – in pursuit of freedom in 1880s Brazil. Building upon a vast historiography, it uses a single microhistory to recuperate the social practices, ways of life, and world visions that resided below the surface of judicial testimony. In so doing, it opens an important window through which we can apprehend the ways in which women on the bo…
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans, over four times as many as any other American destination. Comparatively speaking, Brazil received 40% of the total number of Africans brought to the Americas, while the US received approximately 10%. Due to this huge influx of Africans, today Brazil’s African-descended population is larger than the p…
Reclamando a liberdade: Mulheres em busca de emancipação em sociedades escravistas nas Américas (séculos XVIII e XIX)
Este dossiê objetiva compreender como mulheres negras construíram projetos de autonomia, próprios e de outras pessoas, e como enfrentaram desafios impostos à consecução dos mesmos e conceberam a liberdade a ser usufruída após a emancipação. Interessa-se, igualmente, por discutir, em crivo crítico, a circulação de padrões de feminilidade, raça e gênero em sociedades escravistas no decorrer dos processos de abolição - contemplando, nesse sentido, a…
On the consequences of childbirth: Obstetrics/gynaecology, comparative anatomy and racial theories in 19th century France and Brazil
The following paper is centred on an analysis of comparative studies of the human pelvis developed over the 19th century by mostly French natural scientists, physical anthropologists, students of the human anatomy and doctors engaged in the initial stages of the emerging fields of gynaecology and obstetrics. As this paper will argue, there was considerable overlap between these specialisations, producing a fundamentally masculine, Eurocentric and…
A Freedwoman and Her Enslaved Children: Terror, Motherhood, and Death in Northern Brazil amid Slavery’s Decline
This article examines the entanglement of enslaved motherhood and the reproduction of servitude in the late nineteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the disintegration of legal and demographic structures that sustained slavery in Brazil. Due to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, enslaved women were central to the perpetuation of bondage across generations. Following the 1871 Free Womb Law, São Luís, the capital of Maranhão in norther…
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