Neste mesmo chão, outros passos: indivíduos não-brancos nos Sertões do Rio Grande (Ribeira do Acauã, Totoró, Séculos XVIII-XIX)

Abstract

It investigates representations about non-white individuals in Totoró and its surroundings, a space located in Ribeira do Acauã, during the 18th and 19th centuries. Methodologically, it starts with a historiographical review, transcription and reading of post-mortem inventories, sesmarial sources and manumission letters with baptism, marriage and death records related to the sertão do Seridó. Believe that the constitution and experiences in Totoró did not involve only lusitanian or luso-brazilian subjects, as well as, it was not restricted only to the family nucleus of Lopes Galvão, but there was also the presence and participation of people and families formed by indians, blacks, gentiles from Mina, Costa, Angola, creoles, goats, mulattoes, pardos and mestizos in the conditions of free, captive or free. Operating the concepts of dynamics of miscegenation and quality, dialoguing with the assumptions of Quantitative and Serious History and Micro-History, seek to understand how these individuals participated and were inserted in the social, economic, political and religious dynamics of their time and space. For this, we reconstruct family arrangements that were constituted in captivity and track specific trajectories of non-white people located in this territoriality: Miguel Figueira Galvão, José Lopes Galvão and Paula Barbalho de Vasconcelos, and Diogo de Melo and Paula Maria da Conceição; aiming perceive tactics, strategies and forms of resistance that circumvent the limits that colonial society tried to impose.