This project aims to investigate a case of transnational political violence, linking the two most important slavery-based countries in 19th century, Brazil and the United States. It argues that the case was a transnational one in two senses. First, because a technique of political violence, the lynching, was transferred from a slavery-based zone in the US (Louisiana) to another slavery-based zone in Brazil (São Paulo). Second, because there was a direct link between the cases, since two ex-Confederates worked as leaders of a lynching just before the abolition of slavery was approved in Brazil. This was a transfer process working among social elites. However, this process affected two social subordinated groups, slaves and women. This project will deal with those dimensions, aiming to tell this story from their point of view. Besides, it will deal with the dispute around the memory of the lynching and how it is still generating political violence a gender-based one nowadays.

Coordenação: Angela Alonso