As Irmandades de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos em Pernambuco : organização religiosa de pessoas de cor no setecentos

Abstract

The brotherhoods of black men were present in much of the Brazilian territory throughout the entire period of slavery of the Africans and their descendants. The eighteenth century is considered by Historiography as the main period of emergence of confraternities and brotherhoods in the Brazilian territory. These brotherhoods were organized by criteria linked to the characteristics of their members, which in the seventeen-hundreds had quality as one of the main ones. When we talk about the quality of brotherhoods in the colonial period, three stand out: white, brown and black. The present study aims to study the brotherhoods of black men in Pernambuco in the seventeen-hundreds. We intend to analyze the social role of these brotherhoods in this period, and the relationship between the different groups involved in the day-to-day of these institutions.