As relações de sociabilidade entre senhores e cativos em Rio Pardo (1780-1820)

Abstract

This study is guided by the check of the relations of closeness and sociability between the agents who contributed for slavery in the western border of the territory of São Pedro, during the period 1780 to 1820, in Rio Pardo. For this assessment, it was used primary source documentation of post-mortem inventory, letters of manumission, criminal proceedings, baptism and marriages books of slaves in Rio Pardo, where was possible to see the family ties formation and an overexploitation by the masters in the slavery system. From this family preservation, it was able to verify the political, economic, and social and sociability relations between masters and slaves in the southern colony had an intention of exploration and alienation of the slave. The use of specific studies about solidarity and the slavery family formation gave us support to understand that the structure which was formed by the slave family, gave to the black men some opportunity to maintain their identity through the preservation of their culture, allowing some resistance to the landlord command. Sociability relations are gaingto facilitate a closer and social contact between these subjects, also by an overexploitation of lords, give it to the needs of the slaves, checking the background of the border who are given these key actors, such as sociability elements and approach everyday have contributed to maintainace of the system without damage to the lords, and some advantages for the captives and their families