TIES SPIRITUAL, FAMILY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

THE CRONY RELATIONS IN SMALL PROPERTIES OF SLAVES OF SERRA DA MANTIQUEIRA – EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the relations of cronyism that were established in small farms of slaves who were present in Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Ibitipoca, Santa Rita do Ibitipoca, Ibertioga, Santana do Garambéu and Sao Domingos da Bocaina, at the end of eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century. These localities were situated in Serra da Mantiqueira, Minas Gerais, a region that was generally known as Borda do Campo. Thus, through an intense cross between Inhabitants of Nominative Lists and Baptism of Parochial Records, we will dedicate ourselves to investigate and better understand the relations of cronyism that have been established between these small slaveholders, and among the captives who were under possession of these men and women in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.