Identity, Religion, and Slave Rotine: Africans social insertion in the religious city of São Cristóvão-SE (Nineteenth Century)

Abstract

Religious brotherhoods assisted the State and Church in Brazil, performing spiritual and social attendanceto white, mulatto and black people. Nossa Senhora do Rosário’s brotherhoods reunited slaves and freeblack people serving as social control instrument well as excluders’ spaces where their sociability’snetwork were re-made. Therefore, this research aim at examines the social means of the Homens Pretosdo Rosário Brotherhood in the religious field in São Cristóvão city, Sergipe. Have Knowledge that theaccess conferred them attendance in the difficulty and touch with salvation property, we believe that thebrotherhood represented a possibility of access to material and symbolical warrants, that help to guardidentification elements in a society dominated for the catholic white elite values.