THE SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE RESISTENCE, CONFLICTS AND CUSTUMS IN SLAVERY BAHIA

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss questions about the Brazilian black people and their processes of resistance in Bahia in the XIX century. We approach the discussing considering the perspective adopt by the recent Brazilian historiography, since the slavery marked significantly the contours of the colonial culture and is reflected nowadays, in many scopes, through the racial relations, social and culture inequality. By these means, we intent to reflect about the aspects of enslaved people’s daily life, their ability to negotiate, mobilize, and to express themselves according their religious and cultural values. Using fragments of some books written by historians like Stuart Schwartz, João José Reis and others, we intended to describe some fundamental aspects that are noticeable in “History from bellow” point of view analyzing the historical unfolding of two regions: the south of Bahia and Salvador, bringing forward a wider perspective of Brazilian history’s comprehension in response to the theories consequences brought by slavery.