OS DEFENSORES DO ESCRAVISMO NA IMPRENSA LUDOVICENSE (1881-1888)1

Abstract

As long as the slavery remained in Brazil, the province of Maranhão was one of the main users of this kind of labor, being that between the end of the XVIIIth century and the first decades of the XIXth century with its insertion in the agro-exporter economy and its consequent economy apogee, this use was intensified. Maranhão was know as one of the pillars this servile institution in the until. The present work consists in a study on the ideas contrary to the abolition of the servile condition in Maranhão through the daily press of its capital.