... important aspects of the choices and paths they chose. This chapter makes use of various types of sources, but especially registers of domestic servants and urban workers, economic sectors that employed a large number of the men and women who had lived through slavery. post-emancipation migration...

... slavery abolition freedom post-emancipation citizenship racism ...

... abolition post-emancipation rural labor plantation daily life sugar plantations ...

... post-emancipation migration trajectories city urban labor domestic service family ...

... post-emancipation family community orality and freedom Recôncavo sugar plantations rural and urban labor migration ...

... abolition post-emancipation social tension freedom citizenship Recôncavo Maracangalha Bahia rural labor land conflicts ...

... post-emancipation trajectories family memory survival Recôncavo sugar plantations rural community rural and urban labor migration ...

... on the old properties or in the villages where they were born as slaves represented strategic choices for survival in the post-emancipation period. To sustain this argument, the chapter relies on written documents, especially registry office records, which made it possible to connect ex-slaves...