“Que negros somos nós?”: africanos no Recife, século XVIII

Detalhes bibliográficos
Ano de defesa: 2021
Autor(a) principal: MELO, Filipe Matheus Marinho de lattes
Orientador(a): ALMEIDA, Suely Creusa Cordeiro de
Banca de defesa: SILVA, Gian Carlo de Melo, COSTA, Valéria Gomes, BEZERRA, Janaína Santos
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em História
Departamento: Departamento de História
País: Brasil
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Link de acesso: http://www.tede2.ufrpe.br:8080/tede2/handle/tede2/9469
Resumo: This research aims to investigate the experiences of Africans in Pernambuco in the 18th century, especially in Recife in the second half of this Century. Based on some individual and collective trajectories, marked by slavery or freedom, this work seeks to present the survival strategies, identities, social insertion, and kinship construction of people born in Africa who were transported to Pernambuco. The port of Recife, along with Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, was one of the ports that received most enslaved people from Africa throughout the 18th Century, and estimates show that at least 158,000 people landed on these beaches. To this purpose, we used the available ecclesiastical and notary documentation, as well as administrative sources and chroniclers' accounts as a way to understand how the Africans who arrived in Recife rebuilt their lives, despite the conditions in which they lived. Thus, the tools of Social History were methodologically important to reconstruct trajectories, family arrangements and sociability networks, to highlight the protagonism experienced by these people. Therefore, by dealing specifically with Africans, this research revisits the sources to bring new readings and interpretations to the study of this social group in the colonial society of Recife.