Os Santos Óleos: relações sociais e alforrias na Pia Batismal Freguesia de São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, meados do século XVIII

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Elizangela de Melo Bezerra
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13558
• topic: Slavery; Enfranchisement; Colonial Brazil; Escravidão - Rio de Janeiro; Batismo; Escravidão; Alforria; Brasil-Colônia; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

According to the Catholic doctrine, the ritual baptism is understood as the sacrament that opens the doors of Christian life in baptizing. However, this same act of the Eucharist may have been used by slaves or former slaves to open other doors not only to the Christian life, but a possibility of social arrangements to alleviate their condition of captives in a hostile world of slavery in Brazil. The parish registers are sources of extreme significance to understand the organization of populations, especially the slave population. In this work we have as reference the baptism seats of the church Matriz de São Gonçalo de Amarante, Freguesia de São Gonçalo (Rio de Janeiro), between 1746 a 1768. We did a reading of the bibliographical production regarding the manumission and collusion, seeking to highlight the way and the historiographical progress about th subject. From the sources we extracted the most significant cases of cronyism involving the slave population in the region and and in period highlighted in order to realize the significance of baptism for the captives and how it was used by them to seek protection and strengthen the bonds between fellow captive. We checked also the cases of manumission of sink found in the documentation, showing that the sacrament of baptism could reach dimensions beyond those that were expected by the Catholic Church.