O Legado da Escravidão na Formação do Patrimônio Cultural Jaguarense (1802-1888)

Abstract

Jaguarão is located in southern Brazil, on the border with Uruguay. It is recognized for its architectural complexes, which are considered singular in the Rio Grande do Sul context. It emphasizes the prominence, in the midst of this scenario, the buildings constructed in the last decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the period of economic prosperity which marks the civil construction zenit. The studies that led to the Inventory of Jaguarense Architectural Heritage (1988), rather than reflecting on preservation actions, emphasized, specifically in terms of History, the prominence of Euro-Western references in the conformation of the border, so that, the hypothesis of these studies is that the Jaguarão reflects inits cultural and urban context, the blending of two cultures: Portuguese and Spanish. My study, in contraposition, raised local data from the past that were omitted by studies of the patrimonial sphere: the black presence of captive Africans and African descend people in nineteenth-century buildingsof Jaguarão, and incidences of slavery in the constitution of the elites’s built cultural property.