No rendilhado do cotidiano: a família e as redes sociais dos livres de cor na Comarca do Rio das Mortes (c.1770-c.1850)

Abstract

The research titled "In everyday lace: the family and social networks of the free colored in the Comarca do Rio das Mortes (1770-1850) aims to analyze the constitution of the family and social networks of free colored people in the course of eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. The geographical area comprised the parishes of Our Lady of Aiuruoca of Conception, Our Lady of Monserrate Baependi and Our Lady of the Pillar of São João del Rei. The family concept is what gets it as a productive unit synthesized by the concept of ganze Haus and the relationships woven beyond consanguineous ties and procreation requirements established by marriage ties, by concubinage, the crony networks and friendship. The family formed under the captivity it was guided in stable relationships and constituted in social distinction strategy under the slave system, parallel to obtain material goods and freedom. Thus, the free colored population constituted families and established the most diverse social webs, either as a parent or godparents and marriage ties. Social networks were developed through ties that united a group of people through interpersonal relations linking the individual to others in the social network in which was inserted. The analysis of the family of the free colored people and their relationship of spiritual kinship through social networks allows us to understand the dynamics of family formation, either by economic activities or by fictive kinship. Since the color-free concept constitutes a methodological strategy to identify, quantify and analyze a group classified differently in the documentation (negro forro, preto mina, preto, crioulo, crioulo livre, crioulo forro, cabra, cabra livre, cabra forro, pardo, pardo forro e pardo livre). Such a concept allows to grasp both the condition of lining as the condition of those who were born free belly. Furthermore, the population includes more adequately free people then the terms of lining and egress from captivity, as does "refer to both groups without distinction condition at birth"