![]() 1) 3 3įor the relations of the Gazeta da Tarde with abolitionism, see Pinto (2015). ![]() ![]() In addition to stating that experience proved the contrary, the newspaper queried: “So does the government want to free the blacks just to put them in jail? To arm a violent, despotic rural police at the service of wicked ex-masters who do not know how to adjust themselves to the new labor conditions?” ( Semana parlamentar, 1888 SEMANA PARLAMENTAR. In the Portuguese version of this article, I updated the spelling of the quotations, although I kept the punctuation and the use of capital letters from the originals. ![]() Commenting on Princess Isabel’s speech from the throne delivered on May 3, 1888, which addressed the need to extinguish servitude but at the same time stressed the importance of improving “our laws for repressing idleness”, the daily newspaper Gazeta da Tarde stated that the government seemed to be imbued with the “false idea that the freed slave becomes an enemy of work and the public order”. ![]()
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