| Journal: | Afro-Asia |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000528868 |
| ISSN: | 0002-0591 |
| Authors: | Maia, Moacir Rodrigo de Castro1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Season: | Jul-Dic |
| Number: | 62 |
| Pages: | 9-45 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | This article discusses a group of freed African people identified in Portuguese sources as Courás or Couranos, seeking to understand how they formed their homes in two important urban centers of the Captaincy of Minas Gerais during the eighteenth century. The gold-mining economy facilitated the acquisition of significant numbers of enslaved laborers by black masters. The study examines the origin of these enslaved people and the way in which many of these households maintained a close relationship with their African past. Usinga comparative and connected approach, this paper shows that in both of the two neighboring towns there were enclaves of freed Africans who, in addition to obtaining manumission, also acquired various forms of property, including houses, commercial establishments, gold mines and especially, enslaved people of the same ethnic identity |
| Portuguese abstract | O artigo acompanha um grupo de libertos africanos, nomeado nas fontes portuguesas como courás, couranos ou variantes, para entender como constituíram suas casas em dois importantes núcleos urbanos da capitania de Minas Gerais ao longo do século XVIII. A economia do ouro possibilitou uma significativa posse de trabalhadores escravos para alguns desses senhores negros. O estudo desvenda a origem desses escravizados e como muitos desses lares mantiveram uma estreita relação com o passado africano desse grupo. De forma comparativa e também conectada, percebeu-se como as duas povoações vizinhas possuíam grupos de africanos forros que, além da alforria, adquiriram bens: casas, estabelecimentos comerciais, minas de ouro e, principalmente, trabalhadores escravos da mesma identidade étnica |
| Disciplines: | Historia |
| Keyword: | Historia regional, Historia social, Etnohistoria, Diáspora africana, Libertarios, Esclavitud, Identidad étnica, Propiedad, Esclavos, Siglo XVIII |
| Keyword: | Regional history, Social history, Ethnohistory, African diaspora, African freed people, Slavery, Ethnic identity, Ownership, Slave, 18th century |
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