"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."
ABSTRACT, KEY-WORDS: Black Slavery, Brazil, Abolition, Baixa Mogiana. 
Fonte: A autora - Vera Silvia Constantino (PUC - MINAS)
 
