"This
present article is subject to the political thought of abolitionist
movements in Baixa Mogiana between 1870 and 1890, whose guiding point
was the murder of the delegate of police, Joaquim Firmino, which,
according to the season news and with the existing literature, it would
have inspired and rushed thr signing of Law Aurea, already under
imminent. This episode, therefore, there was the other in the decision
by the abolition of slavery and influenced the change of name of the
city of Penha do Rio do Peixe for the current Itapira. The preparation
of the study allowed reflect on a particular occurred in the Region of
Baixa Mogiana that, in fact, lived reflexes of major events: the
external and internal pressures by the end of slave labour, in a time
modernity required the existing workforce employed specifically to
European immigrants."
