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Toward a History of Rights in the City at Night: Making and Breaking the Nightly Curfew in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Amy Chazkel
Amy Chazkel*
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History, Columbia University
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amychazkel@gmail.com
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Abstract

During much of the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian capital, was under a selective curfew that made it a crime to be in the city's public spaces after dark. The curfew bent normal rules and attenuated supposedly universal rights, overtly discriminating between people on the basis of class and race. Rules that legally defined the nighttime did not come from any national statute, or from newly independent Brazil's liberal Constitution (1824) or its Criminal Code (1830). Instead, Rio's nocturnal sociolegal world was the product of police edicts, on-the-ground policing practice, and city ordinances. It also emerged from the actions of people who used the darker hours for work, play, and resistance against oppression, especially members of the city's immense enslaved population and the growing number of free persons of African descent. In other words, this is a phenomenon of urban governance that allows, and indeed forces us to look beyond the nineteenth-century nation-state to understand the exercise of power at a local level. This article explores how the curfew established patterns and means of limiting the basic freedom to move about the city. It was at night when both the necessity and fragility of what jurists in Brazil called the “freedom to come and go” came into view. The daily transition between day and night enacted juridical changes that, although invisible at the national level, fundamentally shaped the social categories that determined people's places in society in ways that historical research has yet to explore.

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nightlifeurban historytemporalityRio de JaneiroBrazilrule of lawcurfewspolicinghistory of crimestates of emergency
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Politics of Atmosphere and Ambiance
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 106 - 134
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2020

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60 On midwives being permitted to enter the streets after curfew, see AN, Maço IJ6 211.

61 AN, Polícia da Côrte, Códice 336.

62 These announcements appear throughout the classified sections of the Jornal do Comércio from January through February 1830.

63 Rio's first police force, the Intendência Geral da Polícia, followed a model borrowed from eighteenth-century Portugal via Bourbon France, which assigned to the police a wide range of administrative responsibilities, including public works and lighting. See Schultz, Tropical Versailles, 276–77; Holloway, Policing Rio.

64 Centro Cultural da Light, “A iluminação no Rio de Janeiro,” unpub. MS; AGCRJ, Códice 8.4.58, folha 49; AGCRJ, Códice 8.4.58, folha 70; AGCRJ, Códice 8.4.57, folha 3; AGCRJ, Códice 8.4.57, folhas 27–29.

65 The quotation is from an unnamed source and is dated 1838. It is cited in Americo Jacobina Lacombe, “A illuminação do Rio com oleo de baleia,” Revista Light (Jan. 1933), 27.

66 The contract is reprinted in the newspaper Jornal do Comércio 1, 20 (27 Jan. 1830): 1–2, under heading “Parte Comercial.”

67 See, for example, AN, Gifi, caixa 5B 519; AN, IJ6 211; AN, IJ6 216. AN, Polícia da Côrte 232, vol. 8, n.p., AN IJ6 215.

68 See Chazkel, Amy, “Imagens nostálgicas: Os ascendedores de lampião na Revista Light,” in Maia, Andrea Casa Nova, ed., O mundo do trabalho nas páginas das revistas ilustradas (Rio de Janeiro: Editora 7 Letras, 2016)Google Scholar.

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72 Constituição Política do Império do Brasil (25 Mar. 1824), Título 8o, arts. 178 and 179, accessed at http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/constituicao/constituicao24.htm (accessed 25 Aug. 2019). See L. de Mello Aguirre and E. Francisco Volpato, “A influência do liberalismo na primeira constituição brasileira,” Contribuciones a las Ciencias Sociales (June 2014), www.eumed.net/rev/cccss/28/direitos.html (accessed 25 Aug. 2019).

73 Thomas Alvez Junior, Annotações Theoricas e Praticas ao Codigo Criminal, tomo IV (Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, 1883).

74 Código Criminal do Império do Brasil (Lei de 16 Dec. 1830). Accessed at http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/lim/LIM-16-12-1830.htm (accessed 25 Aug. 2019).

75 These concerns echo in the police and judicial archives. See, for example, AN, Códice 339, vol. 2: “Portarias, 1841–1850.”

76 Farias, Juliana Barreto, Líbano Soares, Carlos Eugênio, and Gomes, Flávio Santos, No labirinto das Nações: Africanos e identidades no Rio de Janeiro, século XIX (Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Nacional, 2005), 88–90Google Scholar. On the control of movements of enslaved workers and foreigners, see AN, Códice 339, vol. 2, “Portarias, 1841–1850.”

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