A família negra no Brasil

Authors

  • Eny de Mesquita Samara Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas; Departamento de História

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i120p27-44

Keywords:

slavery, family organisation, formal and informal marriages

Abstract

The articles offers a critical survey of contemporary historiography on the slave family and analyses the difficult problem of access to specific sources that may through new light on the slaves' marital arrangements pointing to the existence of manuscript wills of free blacks that give information about their family organisation. Reviewing the bibliography on slave family, the author points out that approximately one third of slaves and/or free blacks were married or living in informal but stable matches. Concerning mixed marriages between slaves and free blacks, the author points out the prevalence of inter pares marriages reinforcing the dominant patterns of the white elites.

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Published

1989-07-30

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How to Cite

SAMARA, Eny de Mesquita. A família negra no Brasil . Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 120, p. 27–44, 1989. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i120p27-44. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/18590.. Acesso em: 17 may. 2024.