O QUE MUDOU DEPOIS DO 13 DE MAIO?

Even though slavery was declared abolished in Brazil with the Golden Law (Law 3.353, of May 13, 1888), it left as a legacy to the Black and Indigenous populations of the country the maintenance of systems and technologies of social control whose political economy would pursue the classification of humanities within the Brazilian capitalist effort of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A product of the revolutionary tradition and the anti-oppression agency of struggles since Palmares (1595-1695), Black abolitionism organized the popular resistance that would defeat colonial-imperial slavery and the pity of European bad conscience regarding transatlantic trafficking and kidnapping in just over three centuries. However, the arrangement of power networks in the nascent republican state updated the forms of slave-owning subservience at the dawn of the post-monarchical positivist project of inequalities. In criticism of governmental neglect, Black Movements denounced as early as May 14, 1888, the absence of reparation policies and the farce of the egalitarian promise suggested by the golden law, making May a month of reflection and collective memory. After 138 years, groups, sections, collectives, and initiatives still make the agenda of freedom a banner for recognizing the value of Black lives in the face of the permanent state of exclusion from citizenship. This week's Canal Preto discusses May 13th as a critical landmark in the celebration of resistance and struggles for the freedom of Black people in Brazilian history. Research sources: Alma Preta, g1, Brasil de Fato, BBC Brasil, and Brasil Escola. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Canal Preto thanks its guests for their support, trust, and sharing of knowledge, as their words are the main reference used in and for the construction of all the content published throughout the week. Ynaê Lopes dos Santos - Professor of History at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Lopes dos Santos is a columnist for DW Brazil and author of the books "Brazilian Racism: A History of the Formation of the Country" (Todavia, 2022) and "History of Africa and Afro-Brazilian Descendants" (Pallas, 2017). Flávio Gomes - Associate Professor of Brazilian History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Gomes holds a PhD in Social History from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP, 1997) and is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Lazzo Matumbi - Singer, songwriter, and leading activist in Bahian Black music #ForEveryoneToSee: In the video (medium shot), we see, respectively, the following invited individuals: Ynaê Lopes dos Santos, a Black woman with short curly hair, wearing a black blouse topped with a black cardigan and, in addition to red beaded necklaces, silver pendant earrings; Flávio Gomes, a Black man with gray curly hair covered by a checkered beret, wearing a light pink t-shirt and black square-framed glasses; and Lazzo Matumbi, a bald Black man, wearing a blue shirt with white colored stripes and, in addition to sunglasses, silver hoop earrings and a maxi necklace with a blue-green crystal pendant. Racism. You either fight it, or you are part of it. Which one are you? #reparation #freedom #blackchannel