De propriedade a proprietária, ou, Duas africanas senhoras de escravizadas (Recife, Século XVIII)

Abstract

The debate that this work proposes is to explore the cultural, political, and social meanings of enslaved people's possession of two freed Africans in Recife in the second half of the 18th century. The theme is not new to historiography, although studies on the subject are timid. But
what we try to do here is to extrapolate the considerations given by historiography about such practices being assimilations of the slave logic in colonial Brazil and give an Atlantic dimension to the debate. That is, to highlight that the possession of captives was something that occurred in Africa and that, in Portuguese America, there were adaptations, by the Africans themselves, both to the model of slavery in Africa and to the Portuguese model in vogue in the colony.