Tesis
“Homens de ferro, mulheres de pedra” : resistências e readaptações identitárias de africanos escravizados : do hinterland de Benguela aos vales dos rios Paraguai-Guaporé e América espanhola – fugas, quilombos e conspirações urbanas (1720-1809)
Fecha
2015-06-08Registro en:
RODRIGUES, Bruno Pinheiro. “Homens de ferro, mulheres de pedra”: resistências e readaptações identitárias de africanos escravizados: do hinterland de Benguela aos vales dos rios Paraguai-Guaporé e América espanhola – fugas, quilombos e conspirações urbanas (1720-1809). 2015. 372 f. Tese (Doutorado em História) - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Cuiabá, 2015.
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Sena, Ernesto Cerveira de
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Sena, Ernesto Cerveira de
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Lucidio, João Antonio Botelho
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Silva, Alexandra Lima da
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Oliva, Anderson Ribeiro
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Scheffer, Rafael da Cunha
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Resumen
This research investigates the route and identity formation of enslaved Africans between the
years 1720 to 1809, from the hinterland of the port of Benguela to escape and re-start life in
the quilombos formed in Guaporé valley or the Spanish American cities. Thus, initially we
analyze the political and commercial arrangements, as well as the performance of different
historical agents, which enabled the realization of slave trade in the region. In this context not
only alliances were settled between local chiefs and of the Portuguese crown agents, as
occurred direct confrontation situations, kidnapping of slave ships or clashes in the courts. If
on one hand the slave trade gradually advanced to inland areas, particularly by military
means, on the other hand, It became feasible only within African commercial structures, such
as caravans. After the long crossing of the Atlantic and marketing in the coastal cities of
Portuguese America, our iron men and women would be subjected to a new and tortuous
journey to the ultimate destination, the mines of Cuiabá and Mato Grosso. Through a route
that interspersed river and land paths, exposed to numerous dangers, they were shipped to the
confines of the Portuguese America, where they would be employed in mining interspersed
with agricultural and domestic activities. However, contrary to the manor expectations, a
considerable portion escaped and tried to re-start beyond the shackles, that in the borders
between the Iberian crowns could be achieved in the formation of quilombos, adherence to
indigenous societies or border Spanish cities. Notably We investigated the composition and
longevity of the "Quilombo Grande", led by African Teresa de Benguela. Such as a "hydra",
the space reborn after raids and set up in a place of cultural exchanges especially among
indigenous and African. Across the border, where we closed our itinerary, we analyze the
attempt at a rebellion carried by the alliance between runaway slaves from Portuguese
America, slaves from Spanish America and indigenous against Santa Cruz de La Sierra
political authorities at the time It began the wars of independence. In short, at all points of the
route We are faced with cases where individuals in order to keep their hopes on for a possible
life beyond the captivity, resisted, have adapted their identities, took up arms, fled and
conspired.