Preto velho Jeronymo: estudo de caso no pós-abolição, Palmas/PR

Abstract

The work now proposed, as an through the documentary analysis of a police inquiry and a criminal process, aims to understand how the post-abolition process took place in the Parana´s city of Palmas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth years. At first moment we analyzed the disappearance of old black sexagenarian Jeronymo which provided us with a sample of how Palmas society "dealt" with the black population in the post-abolition period. Following we identify who are the witnesses who appear in the process and their relationship with Jeronymo, through the act / crime "performed" by the Russian Carlos Romback. The role of the witnesses is very important for us to understand a little more about the case and what led to the accused Carlos flogging Jeronymo. Romback on the night of January 21, 1903, in the city of Palmas / PR flogged Jeronymo as he sought help, and the next day the "unfortunate old black" had disappeared from the city. In the second part of the research we looked at the records of the exhumation of a body that a few months later was found near the city, where witnesses claim to be from Jeronymo. The objective of the research is to understand the way the black population was inserted, or not, in the post-abolition period, in Palmas / PR, taking into account the way Jeronymo himself appears in the process, as an unidentified subject, even if already living in the Republic, where the only legal condition is to be a citizen. Sources for the research consisted of ecclesiastical marriage and death baptism records and the criminal case available at the Palmas Diocesan Curia and Palmas forum, as well as reports from the provincial presidents and the census of the Palmas population under the custody of the Archives. Paraná public.