Classificação e perseguição: os agentes da Inquisição, os negros, pardos e mulatos em uma sociedade escravista. (Alagoas Colonial, 1674-1820)

Abstract

Despite not having been instituted a Court of Inquisition in Portuguese America, it is misleading to think that their actions have not reached the Tropics. In the Portuguese America, the agents of the Inquisition reinvented themselves in every moment, with the African slave trade, the conquest of Native Americans, cultural miscegenation and lifestyles. The agents learned there rating and pursue practices from African and American ethnic groups. In the same way, the slaves, and the free, also used the Inquisition as a tool of resistance, putting latches in some moments and turning against the white masters.