ABSTRACT Title of dissertation: SLAVE LEGACIES, AMBIVALENT ...

downtown Rio. 52 While the social history of street commerce demonstrates its
ambivalent position in Rio, its visual history or how street vendors were
represented in slave and post-slave society reveals that the cultural normalization
of certain practices, such as the bahiana street seller, occurred alongside
municipal overregulation which had socio-economic marginalizing effects. Street
sellers, who were considered “wage earners” (ganhadores) in the nineteenth-
century slave society of Rio, became ambulantes or free (mobile) street vendors
located on the border between the worlds of formality and informality in the
twentieth century.
52 Moura, Tia Ciata; Mônica Pimenta Velloso, “As tias bahanas toman conta do pedaço: espaço e
identidade cultural no Rio de Janeiro” Estudos Históricos 3 no. 6 (1990): 207-228.
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