A benção compadre: experiências de parentesco, escravidão e liberdade em Pelotas, 1830/1850

Abstract

The paper studies the relationships of family and kinship slaves in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, in the course of eight hundred. To this end we carried out a cross from various sources relating to slaves and free blacks, looking wherever possible to follow the trajectory of this social group over time during his captivity by the experiences of kinship, insertions in the world of work, ethnicity, slavery, gender and freedom. Research prioritized the analysis of family relationship and emotional slaves and freedmen, emphasizing the social bonds confirmed by cronyism. The paper attempts to ask questions about the process of socialization around the captive local black community and think about how they reproduced the hierarchical relations between slaves and other social sectors. There was concern rebuild black families searched through the interbreeding of the documentation collected records (baptisms, deaths, postmortem inventories, letters of manumission, etc.). Thus we understand the importance of the family slave to the project of obtaining manumission for relatives and allies, and as a resistance element.