Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the creation of the law of October 15, 1886, which abolished the penalty of whipping in Brazil. Unlike the historiography that highlights the international anti-slavery context and the parliamentary disputes, I intend to examine the debates in the field of Justice and in the press, through the study of three cases that had great repercussion in the 1870s and 1880s. My intention is to demonstrate how the parliamentary discussions for the abolition of the punishment of scourges in Brazil were related to a broad debate of criticism of physical punishment in the final years of slavery.
Keywords:
Penalty of the lash; master punishment; abolitionism