As comemorações da Lei Áurea pelas páginas dos jornais A Federação (RS) e O Paiz (RJ), 1888-1928

Abstract

Military parades, street parties, union meetings, civic marches. In these and other ways, the Golden Law was celebrated during the First Republic. The daily newspapers reported the repercussion of these celebrations on their pages. In view of this, the present research investigates the texts published commemorating the Golden Law during the years 1888 and 1928 by the newspapers A Federação (RS) and O Paiz (RJ), two essential periodicals in their respective states. We analyze the occurrences in forty years of commemoration of the 13th of May and we perceive various texts published in the first decades of post-abolition, while we observe a decline of news in these newspapers after the First World War. In these periodicals, we find an amalgamation of published content: illustrations, poems, verses, chronicles, commercial advertisements, daily news and opinion texts. Finally, we understand that the behavior of this press was based on five senses: a) humanitarian sense; b) racial sense; c) sense of progress; d) sense of freedom; e) sense of union/fraternization.