Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, BrazilBlacks of the Rosary tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary in Minas Gerais. It shows how these brotherhoods functioned as a social space in which Africans and their descendants could rebuild a communal identity based on a shared history of an African past and an ongoing devotional practice, thereby giving rise to enduring transnational cultures that have survived to the present day. In exploring this intersection of community, identity, and memory, the book probes the Portuguese and African contributions to the brotherhoods in Part One. Part Two traces the changes and continuities within the organizations from the early eighteenth century to the end of the Brazilian Empire, and the book concludes in Part Three with discussion of the twentieth-century brotherhoods and narratives of the participants in brotherhood festivals in the 1990s. In a larger sense, the book serves as a case study through which readers can examine the strategies that Afro-Brazilians used to create viable communities in order to confront the asymmetry of power inherent in the slave societies of the Americas and their economic and social marginalization in the twentieth century. |
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... Colonial Period, 1750–1822 103 5 The Brotherhoods in the Brazilian Empire 139 PART THREE 6 Congados and Reinados, 1888–1990 173 7 Voices of the Congadeiros 207 conclusion xv 241 appendix 251 glossary 259 bibliography 263 index 281 ...
... Colonial Brazil 35 2. African regions that fed the slave trade to Minas Gerais 42 3. Colonial Minas Gerais 72 4. Nineteenth-century Minas Gerais 152 5. Jatobá, Contagem, Betim, and Ibirité, in the greater metropolitan region of Belo ...
... Colonial Arquivo Público Mineiro, Seção Governmental Arquivo Público Mineiro, Seção Provincial Arquivo Público Mineiro, Seção Provincial, Presidente da Província Casa Borba Gato, Sabará, MG Casa dos Contos, Ouro Preto, MG Fundação ...
... colonial rosary brotherhood traditions in Minas Gerais in which African- and Brazilian-born slaves and free blacks formed communities, celebrated their saints, and helped one another on to the other world through rituals of death.6 The ...
... Colonial Brazil: A Study in Collective Behavior,” HAHR 54 (1974): 567–602; Donald Ramos, “Community, Control, and Acculturation: A Case Study of Slavery in Eighteenth Century Brazil,” The Americas 42 (April 1986): 419–51; Caio César ...
Contents
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3 Early Formation of the Brotherhoods 16901750 | 67 |
4 The Late Colonial Period 17501822 | 103 |
5 The Brotherhoods in the Brazilian Empire | 139 |
6 Congados and Reinados 18881990 | 173 |
7 Voices of the Congadeiros | 207 |
Conclusion | 241 |
Appendix | 251 |
Glossary | 259 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 281 |
Back Cover | 288 |
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