O uso de fontes no ensino de história: o livro Úrsula de Maria Firmina dos Reis na busca pelo escravo real.

Abstract

It discusses the importance of using historical sources in the classroom, one of the premises for the construction of historical literacy, presenting work proposal as the use of the novel “Ursula” - Maria Firmina dos Reis (1859), as a rich source to present a historical view of slavery as historical agent, to understand the dynamics of slavery in Brazil considering not only its economic implications, thereby introducing students to the historiographical and / or construction of historical knowledge. Briefly presents the debate occurred around the theme of black slavery in Brazil since the 60s of last century, which resulted in a gradual shift in paradigms that hitherto guided his study where the captive is no longer focused just as an object of history, a being subject to economic forces, social and cultural rights against which almost anything could make, starting to be seen as a historical subject who acted on reality.