Demography and slave family in the village of Santo Antônio de Sá (c. 1700 – c. 1808)
demographics; slave family; Saint Anthony of Sá
The central theme of this thesis is slave sociability in the village of Santo Antônio de Sá throughout the 18th century. It is based on the premise that the rural parishes of the Recôncavo of Guanabara shared certain characteristics in common, such as a diversified economy, focused both on agro-exportation and the production of foodstuffs, and with a slave population that made up half of all inhabitants at the end of the seven hundred. The analysis of the whole will allow us to perceive how the transformations experienced by these parishes, generated both by internal and external factors and, therefore, interconnected the dynamics of the colonial system, have focused on the demographics and slave sociability. By slave sociability we understand both the family and the bonds of compatrio. Analyzed in the long duration we can notice that the trends of these sociability varied in time allowing to glimpse processes of creoleization and Africanization in slave demographics.