Lugares do Catolicismo Negro na São Paulo do século XIX

Abstract

In the 19th century, during the peak of the presence of blacks in the city of São Paulo, four Brotherhoods of Black Men inserted themselves into the urban plan, demarcating the places where the excluded population could socialize and preserve their African references. The flow of black devotees in these and other churches would allow the establishment of territories of Black Catholicism in São Paulo, deemed as the genesis of black urban presence in this city. In addition to presenting these architectural landmarks and acknowledging them as sites of the religious scene of the 1800s, the exercise of identifying them from primary documents aims to reveal traces of a still-silenced urban history.