“Pomp and circumstance” to a brown saint: St. Gonçalo Garcia and the struggle for social inclusion of the browns in the eighteenth

Authors

  • Janaina dos Santos Bezerra Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Suely Cordeiro Almeida Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the condition of brown people through the great festival held in honor of Saint Gonçalo Garcia in the year 1745, in Recife, and funded by the Fellowship of Deliverance, among others. Our analysis relied on the work of two Franciscans, Fray Antonio de Santa Maria Jaboatão and Sotério da Silva, Sotério and Jaboatão, pseudonym of Fray Manuel da Madre de Deus, who left accounts of this event. In order to develop the work, we showed the historical subjects that attended the festival, considering it as a celebration that represented the opening of a space for the expression of a group seeking inclusion and projection in the body of colonial society Recife besides providing to its participants moments of fun and public manifestation of Catholic faith.

Key words: brown, inclusion, celebration.

Author Biography

Suely Cordeiro Almeida, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

Professora da Graduação e Pó-Graduação em História da Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco. Lotada no Departamento de História e atualmente coordenadora da Pós-Graduação/Mestrado em História. voltada para pesquisas em História do Brasil Colonial na relação com o Mundo Atlântico. Atualmente desenvolve investigação sobre as estratégias de sobrevivência das mulheres entre Lisboa, Luanda e o Recife.

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Published

2011-12-06

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2012): January/April

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