49 On the S?Paulo case, see Fausto, Boris. A criminalidade em S?Paulo, 1880-1924. S?Paulo: Brasiliense, 1984. Citing the description by a police chief of a young woman of 20 years, accused of stealing in 1892 – "She was a black woman of average height, frizzy hair, large eyes, good teeth, thick lips" – therefore using a terminology typical of the slave market, the author asks: "A simple vestige of an old habit still existing in the years immediately after Abolition and on the way to vanishing? Nothing suggests this" (p.54). Also see Pinto, Maria Inez M. B. Cotidiano e sobreviv?ia: a vida do trabalhador pobre na cidade de S?Paulo – 1890-1914. S?Paulo: Edusp, 1994.
