Negras de tabuleiro: uma visão a partir de viagem pitoresca e histórica ao Brasil de Jean Baptiste Debret

Abstract

This article seeks to present the analyzes made from the iconographies of Jean-Baptiste Debret with black women on the board and their respective African and Afro-Brazilian cultural representations, social and work customs in Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century, during his stay in Brazil between 1816 and 1816. 1831. The objective is to show that the respective iconographies present historical, aesthetic and cultural elements of the time as well as the gender and social issue of these women, in conditions of slavery, freedom and forro. We will discuss the representations and their terms related to the black African woman, as well as the Afro-Brazilian, based on comments made on boards by Debret himself in Viagem Pitoresca e Histórica ao Brasil, and also on sources with narratives on the subject.