Capitães da Feira e outras crianças: a infância pobre e abandonada de Feira de Santana entre 1879 e 1945

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the daily life of poor and abandoned children of Feira de Santana in the period comprising the years 1879 to 1945. We understand that this interval initiatives directed to "fix" childhood’s problems were marked not only in that feirense city but also in Brazilian cities in tune with the republican tenets of order, progress, habits and behaviors’ civility and city architecture. In this progressive desired scenario was seen birth and death public and private actions, times backed by the state, sometimes its drift, implying that the interests of the political sphere in feirense poor and abandoned childhood was not related to solution the historical problems of this social group but the consolidation of the civilizing project that saw the poor and abandoned children before potentially active subjects in Feira de Santana’s delay, possible future articulators of their civilizing project.