O que brotou do Massapê: um estudo sobre as presenças africanas na cidade de Santo Amaro das Brotas/SE

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to understand in which circumstations and how enslaved Africans were brought to Santo Amaro das Brotas (state of Sergipe), and the effects of their presence on the amalgamation of the people of Santo Amaro das Brotas and on the contemporary world. The descriptive dissertation has been organized along four axes: 1) historical contextualization of Santo Amaro das Brotas and its importance in the economic scenario of the Captaincy of Sergipe; 2) evidence of the experiences and alliances of protection and solidarity between enslaved blacks and the religious agencies represented by the Brotherhoods of Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos and Nossa Senhora do Amparo dos Homens Pardos in Santo Amaro; 3) mapping the cultural manifestations (extinct and current) that emerged under the influence of African presences, which have become references as acts of resistance for Afrodescendants today; 4) highlighting the initiatives of organized civil society to occupy local cultural spaces, as well as public policies that aim to empower and give visibility to Afrodescendants from Santo Amaro as agents that promote local culture today.