A família negra na Freguesia de São Bom Jesus dos Mártires: incursões em uma demografia de escravidão no Sul de Minas (1810-1873)

Abstract

We undertook this work, through the interweaving of documents such as censuses (population maps and lists of named), along the set of parish registers (baptisms and marriages seats) and processes of postmortem inventories, the effort to advance the discussion of slave family, especially for regions that have dedicated themselves to the domestic supply. The site chosen for this research was the parish of Bom Jesus dos Martires de Pouso Alegre, south-mining town, strategically located in a region of routes of troops and dynamic integration in Central-south network of domestic supply to Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century . The method used was effected in two steps: First, we search through the measurement of data, apprehend evidence of family history to the slave raiding among the black population, such as group distribution in different categories defined by the criterion of social status (free / slave / freed) Source: (Creole / African), color (black / brown), sex and age composition. In the second step, we performed measurements concerning the composition of the slave family, itself. We seek to visualize the frequency of legitimacy among the "innocent children" slave indicated by the baptismal seats, crossed to the maps of population (1833-1835) and seats of marriages, the importance of these officially sanctioned marriages for slaves. Apprehend this result, a high incidence of marriages between the legitimate slave population on the social context of Town and City of Happy Landing., To date, little identified for the context of the Province of Minas. With respect to "patterns of choices" made between the spouses in these marriages captives, we note the predominance exogamic by origin, ie those made between pairs Africans and Creoles, which postulate be a derivative resulting from the combination of traffic and natural growth specificity of the slave population in this South-mining. We seek to work in this second phase, the networks of sociability slave-consanguineous and rituals, through analysis of quantitative and longitudinal properties elected.