José de alencar e joaquim manuel de macedo: obras e discursos abolicionistas invisíveis no ensino de literatura e história

This work highlights two Brazilian literary works of fiction that have slavery as a context: O demônio familiar (1857), by José de Alencar and Simeão, o crioulo (1869), by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. The political positions of each author regarding the abolition of slavery in the country and the way in which they come to life in the texts will be emphasized, both bringing the black slave as a central, manipulative and perverse character. For Alencar, liberation would not be the best option for the country's economic and social evolution, since he even wrote letters to the Brazilian Emperor, asking him to maintain the system; for Macedo, on the other hand, it was the captive who caused harm to society - he called for abolition, but not because of the brutality of the system, but because the society needed protection from an African “threat”. In parallel, we highlight the invisibility of these productions in the teaching of Brazilian Literature, as well as the representations of the enslaved black as an invisible social subject in the teaching of History of Brazil. Above all, we aim to highlight the greatest barbarism: the one suffered by Africans during more than three hundred years of slavery to which they were cowardly submitted in Brazil.