TEACHING HISTORY AND LOCAL HERITAGE: the memory of the liberation of slaves in Mossoró (1904-1983)
History Teaching. Memory. Slavery
This work analyzes the construction of memory about the liberation of slaves in Mossoró, which took place on September 30, 1883, and its use in teaching history through the “monuments” present in the city’s urban space. Through the journalistic narrative of O Mossoroense, we seek to understand how civic festivities, between 1904 and 1983, produced the representation of the city of Mossoró as a Land of Freedom. The articulation between the teaching of history and the use of these monuments will occur through the mobilization of the concept of “local heritage” and will be carried out through didactic mediations with students in the 2nd year of high school, at the Professora Maria Stella Pinheiro Costa State School, located on Walter Wanderley Street, s/n. Liberdade I complex, in Mossoró, RN. Questionnaires, reports and field notebooks produced by students will be used, journalistic articles about the 30th of September 1883, monuments (Statue of Liberty, redemption of square), exhibitions at the Lauro da Escóssia Municipal Museum, Bibliographic Bulletin of the Municipality of Mossoró and works by memoirists Raimundo Soares de Brito, Raimundo Nonato da Silva, Vingt-Un Rosado and Luís da Câmara Cascudo.