Abstract
This article discusses the historical context of the regulation of domestic service in Fortaleza, capital of Ceará, between 1881 and 1887; and seeks to show which interests around the establishment of the Code of Postures for allocation of servants and wet nurses. From analyzes of speeches in contemporary newspapers and examination of sources such as the Book of registration of servants of 1887, produced in the frameworw of the Police Secretary, as well as of other police sources, as an example of the letters of the Police Chieftancy sent to the presidency of the Province, may be situated in the context of the abolition of slaves in Ceará, due to the action of traffickers of slaves during the drought of 1877-79, measures to regulate domestic service, in order to make social control in part of the poor of that city.
Keywords:
Slavery; Servants; Work