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      UM CABO SUBMARINO NA MARÉ ABOLICIONISTA: INFRAESTRUTURA COMUNICACIONAL CONTRA A ESCRAVIDÃO NO CEARÁ (1873-1888) Translated title: A SUBMARINE CABLE ON THE ABOLITIONIST TIDE: MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE AGAINST SLAVERY IN CEARÁ (1873-1888)

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          Resumo Fortaleza é atualmente um hub de cabos submarinos do Atlântico, mas as memórias da presença dessa infraestrutura no imaginário da cidade ainda estão para ser salvaguardadas. Quando um cabo submarino ancorou pela primeira vez na costa da capital cearense, nos primeiros anos da década de 1880, narrativas eletroabolicionistas e fantasmagóricas vieram à superfície. Ao examinar os laços políticos e familiares do britânico William John Ayres, superintendente da Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Co., este artigo se fundamenta tanto nos estudos de infraestrutura quanto na arqueologia da rede para colaborar com estudos prévios do historiador Eduardo Silva que conectam o abolicionismo brasileiro com os efeitos sociais, culturais e políticos da chegada da tecnologia do cabo submarino. A principal colaboração do artigo é demonstrar que a apropriação política em torno dessa infraestrutura, constatada por Eduardo Silva no processo da abolição no Rio de Janeiro em 1888, foi previamente testada na abolição cearense de 1884.

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          Abstract Fortaleza is currently an Atlantic submarine cable hub, but the memories of this infrastructure’s presence in the city’s collective imaginary are yet to be safeguarded. When a submarine cable first landed on the shores of the capital of Ceará state in the early 1880s, electro-abolitionist and phantasmagorical narratives surfaced. By examining the political and familial ties of the British individual William John Ayres, superintendent of the Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Co., this article is grounded in both infrastructure studies and network archaeology to contribute to the previous research of historian Eduardo Silva. Silva’s work connects Brazilian abolitionism with the social, cultural, and political impacts of submarine cable technology’s arrival. The primary contribution of this article is to demonstrate that the political appropriation surrounding this infrastructure, as observed by Eduardo Silva in the context of the 1888 abolition process in Rio de Janeiro, was previously tested in the Ceará abolition of 1884.

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                Revista de História (São Paulo)
                Rev. Hist. (São Paulo)
                Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de História (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                0034-8309
                2316-9141
                2023
                : 182
                : a02723
                Affiliations
                [01] Niterói Rio de Janeiro orgnameUniversidade Federal Fluminense Brazil
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                S0034-83092023000100314 S0034-8309(23)00018200314
                10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2023.209111
                d2b020df-8c44-43d4-b5cb-61983a363cf0

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 08 March 2023
                : 03 July 2023
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                Ceará,telegraph,infrastructure,submarine cable,abolition,telégrafo,infraestrutura,cabo submarino,abolição

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