Notarized And Baptismal Manumissions in the Parish Of SÃO José Do Rio Das Mortes, Minas Gerais (C. 1750-1850)

• Douglas Cole Libby ^[1] ; Afonso De Alencastro Graça Filho ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

     Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

     Brasil

     
  2. [2] Federal Universidade de Sāo Joāo Del Rei
• Localización: The Americas: A quarterly review of inter-american cultural history, ISSN 0003-1615, Vol. 66, Nº. 2, 2009, págs. 211-240
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As regards the slave societies of the Americas, it is hard to imagine a more palpable example of social mobility than manumissions. The fact that exslaves were able to carve out a space for themselves within the larger slave societies attests to their resilience—a resilience that must have played a role in obtaining freedom in the first place—and demonstrates that a considerable measure of social and racial flux existed in at least some of those societies. Manumission and miscegenation, independendy or in association with one another, decisively contributed to the sometimes explosive growth of colored and mestizo populations, which came to characterize large parts of Latin America. Few better examples exist than Brazil, where it was not at all uncommon for ex-slaves to become slaveholders in their own right.