População e família mestiça nas freguesias de Aracati E Russas-Ceará1720/1820

Abstract

The study analyzes how people of "qualities" (whites, Indians, blacks, Creoles, mestizos, mulattos, browns, goats and Mamelukes) and varied legal conditions (free and slave) formed mixed race, legitimate or consenting families, in the parishes of Aracati and Russian, from 1720 to 1820. In the captaincy of Ceara, and other hinterlands, such Piaui, Paraiba and Rio Grande do Norte, the beginning of the colonization process was from the seventeenth century, with the implementation of farms to create and the development of agriculture. In general, these spaces developed a social structure based on free and slave labor. In the period 1720-1820, more precisely in the parishes of Aracati and Russian, parts of the riverside Jaguaribe in Ceará, the study about parish registers possible to see how this social reality was built and/or rebuilt by different agents who lived and attended these hinterland spaces with tenuous borders that marked multiple relationships, besides biological and cultural conformations. And aware of nuptialities and natalities between the social elements of naturalities, qualities and multiple social conditions about population and family background, I understood that through geographic mobility, when entangle the paths of rivers, people were crisscrossing and biologically and culturally mixing, forming proles and sociability networks expressed in different ways to start a family: legitimate (unions blessed by Christian marriage), inbred (slaves spouses, regardless belong to the same master), outbred (a slave spouse and the other lining or free) and mixed (composed of distinct qualities couples: white, black, mulatto, brown, etc.). As a result, the study is based on biological and cultural miscegenation dynamics involving European, African, and native born in the colony.