Ideas, meanings and political culture in the Atlantic history of slavery in the Americas.

Abstract

In this article, we propose to reflect on political culture, Atlantis history and slavery in the Americas. As a basis for empirical testing and demonstration, we discuss the terms of the emergence of a perception and political culture, both among the producers of raw labor and the managers of social wealth. We analyze indications of the perceptions and expectations of the political culture of slaves in the Americas in terms of a movement that is, in many ways, Atlantic, with trans-local meanings for many subjects, characters, structures and dimensions. In the theoretical arena, the main question is to think of such signs as an interface with an Atlantic political culture that reached the subaltern sectors of the societies in question. As an epistemological challenge, we propose to rethink the connections and borders of slavery, liberalism, post-emancipation, colonialism and freedom in the Atlantis worlds, based on compared experiences and articulated processes. Thus, Atlantis history could provide methodological keys as a renewed theoretical field.