Cacos de resistências: artefatos em vidros lascados por pessoas escravizadas na Charqueada São João, Pelotas, RS

Abstract

The objects have the possibility to present alternative perspectives to the colonialist discourses on the slavery. As well, representations about the past participate in contemporary political agendas. Our research intends to approach the practices of resistance developed by enslaved people in a coercive situation. In this sense, we analyze the archeological glasses from the São João Beef Jerky plantation (Pelotas, RS) as a contribution to a material understanding of the daily life of the enslaved people, especially concerning the production of utilitarian tools and the possibilities of participation in the maintenance of the sacred of African origin, following the interpretations from the people of saint. These analyses were presented at a museological exhibition at the Beef Jerky Plantation, promoting these objects to continue being materialities of resistance.