Escravidão, família e liberdade: resistências e sociabilidades de sujeitos escravizados na Uberaba oitocentista (1816-1888)

Abstract

The dissertation results from a research about daily lives of slaves in chácara Boa Vista, Uberaba, State of Minas Gerais, in the Nineteenth Century. Researching documents from 1836 to 1888 it was possible to understand institutional marks and also to think about how slaves and their families were organized at that time. Treating and crossing diferent sources – as letters of freedom, criminal processes, inventories, marriage and baptism registers, oficial acts, among others – it is possible to examine narratives and discourses to pursue slave strategies to create and mantain affective bonds and families. Documents and informations in relation offer relevant clues to investigate paths of slave people’s life, mainly the families of José de Nação Benguela, married to Marianna de Nação Benguela, and Manuel Bento Cabra, married to Pulcheria Cabra and their children, chosen as protagonists in this History.