Free and freed Afro-descendants and political equality in Portuguese America.Change of status, slavery and Atlantic perspective (1750-1840)

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Abstract I propose in this article that free and freed Afro-descendants of three colonial empires of the modern era, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the French, have developed differentiated demands in different procedural steps: the ones that aimed privileges during the old or oligarchic type society, and the ones which demanded political and civil equality during the formation process of the democratic and representative type society. I analyze this aspect from connection plans, structural regularities and recurrences that suggest that the social position of those individuals and their social group in the referred colonial empires is consequence, on the one hand, of diachronic aspects relating to slavery and, on the other hand, synchronous social processes, own to the specific temporality of the 18th and 19th Centuries, such as the transition from one to another kind of society. To do so, I use concepts drawn from sociology and anthropology, such as the social representation and the freedom-slavery continuum.Resumo Proponho neste artigo que afrodescendentes livres e libertos de três impérios coloniais da era moderna, o espanhol, o português e o francês, elaboraram demandas diferenciadas em distintas etapas processuais: as que visavam privilégios durante a sociedade de tipo antigo, ou oligárquico, e as que exigiam igualdade política e civil durante o processo de formação da sociedade de tipo democrático e representativo. Analiso este aspecto a partir de planos de conexões, regularidades estruturais e recorrências que sugerem que a posição social daqueles indivíduos e de seu grupo social nos referidos impérios coloniais decorria, por um lado, de aspectos diacrônicos relativos ao escravismo e, por outro lado, de processos sociais sincrônicos, próprios da temporalidade específica dos séculos XVIII e XIX, tal como o de transição de um a outro tipo de sociedade. Para tanto, utilizo conceitos retirados da sociologia e da antropologia, como os de figuração social e continuum liberdade-escravidão.

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Silva, L. G. (2015). Free and freed Afro-descendants and political equality in Portuguese America.Change of status, slavery and Atlantic perspective (1750-1840). Almanack, (11), 571–632. https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320151101

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