Neste artigo o autor tenta compreender os significados da escravidão e da retórica do protesto na cidade de Teresina-Pi nos anos de 1870-1888. Discute também, a constituição da Força Policial na Província do Piauí e sua tentativa em implantar uma política de controle social a fim de reprimir os “grupos subalternos” da cidade: escravos, libertos e homens livres de cor.
In this article the author examine the experiences of blacks, and freed captives, and their conflicts with society teresinense slave of the nineteenth century. At the same time demand understand the meanings of slavery and the slave protest, taking as a reflection to run, the press of the capital, jokes about the daily life of the city. We discussed also the relations of control police force, based on restriction and, in some cases, the permission of the manifestations of black identity, reasoned, in the organization of folguedos / batuques and training of urban communities, known at the time, as calojis
