Brazilian Slave Narratives Documents
Dr. Robert Krueger, Professor Emeritus, and Alida Bakuzis, former Instructor, at the University of Northern Iowa are curators of the Brazilian Slave Narratives & Texts Project. The purpose of the project is to recover and share texts written & spoken by Brazilian slaves. The archive sheds light on the intimacies and struggles of ordinary slaves and ex-slaves, not only famous and notorious historical figures. Civil and criminal records, letters and petitions reveal the personal lives of slaves involved in human events in work, play and community.
This is a collection of documents related to the Brazilian Slave Narratives Project.
Note: The logobanner image is in the public domain at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slaves_Carrying_a_Covered_Hammock,_Brazil.JPG, by Zacharias Wagener (1630).
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![U.S. and Brazilian 'Slave Narratives': History, Literature, Culture, & Cannon [flier] by Robert Krueger](https://scholarworks.uni.edu/slavenarratives_documents/1000/thumbnail.jpg "U.S. and Brazilian 'Slave Narratives': History, Literature, Culture, & Cannon [flier] by Robert Krueger")
U.S. and Brazilian 'Slave Narratives': History, Literature, Culture, & Cannon [flier]
Robert Krueger
A 55-year research project started searching for the equivalent of the U.S. “Slave Narrative” in Brazil, the American nation that enslaved nearly 50% of the African captives, and has the 2nd largest black population in the world. Delving into the archives of 4 continents and the publications of the “nova historiografia,” revealed Brazil’s unique history of slavery and required the critical abandonment of the U.S. genre to construct the “Narrativa Escravizada Brasileira” sui generi.
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![Archive of Brazilian Slave Narratives & Texts [brochure] by Robert Krueger and Alida Bakuzis](https://scholarworks.uni.edu/slavenarratives_documents/1001/thumbnail.jpg "Archive of Brazilian Slave Narratives & Texts [brochure] by Robert Krueger and Alida Bakuzis")
Archive of Brazilian Slave Narratives & Texts [brochure]
Robert Krueger and Alida Bakuzis
The curators are inviting Brazilian collaborators to join in the leadership of the publication of the “Brazilian slave narratives and texts.”
The archive sheds light on the intimacies and struggles of ordinary slaves and ex-slaves, not only famous and notorious historical figures. Civil and criminal records, letters and petitions reveal the personal lives of slaves involved in human events in work, play and community.
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Chicotealma
Robert Krueger
Este texto teatral é baseado nas narrativas escritas e ditadas por escravizados brasileiros. Uma noite, num beco, um grupo de jovens de rua encontra um casal de ex-escravos, bem idosos, que possuem uma farinha mágica que evoca uma sucessão de personagens reais, escravizados heroicos. Um africano traficado no Brasil que, nos Estados Unidos, consegue a liberdade e segue em seu longo caminho rumo à África. A santa afro-brasileira Rosa Egipcíaca, que sofre os horrores da Inquisição. A grande figura de Luís Gama, revolucionário, poeta e libertador de negros cativos. Os quilombolas de 1787, que escreveram um documento sobre direitos humanos ainda hoje não respeitados. --- Provided by the publisher.
