Irmãos do Rosário e sectários da religião maometana: sociabilidades entre africanos no Recife oitocentista

ABSTRACT This article analyzes the religious connections among freed Africans, who were followers of the brotherhood of Rosário dos Pretos de Santo Antônio and of Islam in Recife during the nineteenth century. For Africans who had experienced slavery and freedom in Brazil, belonging to more than one religious community was relevant in order to assure social and political arrangements, or even to maintain their culture. This was the case of some people whose trajectories are linked to the city of Recife before the abolition of slavery. The goal of the discussion is to approach the links between the practices and knowledge of African religions in the midst of Catholicism. The main sources of the research were wills and post mortem inventories, newspapers and parish records, which were analyzed under the perspective of Italian microanalysis.