In the Urban Texture

Rio de Janeiro and Havana in the urban woof

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the state agencies responsible for
the administration of Rio de Janeiro and Havana stitched the thin plot
that enabled that in these two cities, that the significant increase of
the slave population did not represent an danger on the security of
both cities, which had unique importance in the political units that
they were part. From the comparative analysis of documents produced
between 1816 and 1820 by the authorities responsible for the good
governance of these two cities, we intend to examine part of the
dynamics experienced in the daily lives of those that have become the
two largest slavery cities in the Americas.