Lexis, culture and history in the commitments of black men in the book of the Brotherhood of Nossa Senhora do Rosário do Arrayal do Bomfim de Goyaz (1751)

Abstract

This study aims to present the structure and organization of a book on the Commitment of Black Brotherhood in the 18th century in Goiás. The corpus is composed of the semidiplomatic edition of the book Compromisso da Irmandade deNossa Senhora doRosário dos Homens Pretos do Arraȳal do Bomfim de Goȳaz, available in Silva (2013). The focus resided in inventorying the lexemes referring to the commitments of the men and women of the mentioned fraternity, which were organized into lexical macrofields and microfields. After this organization, the lexias were consulted in contemporary and current dictionaries to identify expansion, retraction or maintenance in the senses. Authors such as Scarano (1978), Soares (2000) and Borges (2005) were used as references for the analysis of the lexias, allowing the establishment of relations between lexicon, history and culture referring to slaves and freedmen of the brotherhood. The lexias show the Church's sociability relations with blacks, allowing them to form ties, redefining their faith and culture through Catholic practices, continuing the process of Christian indoctrination that served so much to the slavery system.