Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the

Jùnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. But her story is not merely the personal history of a woman, or the social history of a colonial Brazilian town. Rather, it provides a historical perspective on the cultural universe she inhabited, and the myths that were created around her in subsequent centuries, as Chica de Silva came to symbolize both an example of racial democracy and the stereotype of licentiousness and sensuality always attributed to the black or mulatta female in the Brazilian popular imagination.

Junia Ferreira Furtado holds a Ph.D. in social history from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is currently a professor of history at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction to the English Edition	p. 1
Land of Stars	p. 20
The Diamantine Demarcation	p. 20
The Village of Tejuco	p. 30
Chica da Silva	p. 40
Slave, Mulatta	p. 40
Ancestry	p. 53
The Diamond Contractors	p. 69
The Old Sergeant Major	p. 69
The Young Chief Judge	p. 85
Black Diamond	p. 104
Profane Love	p. 104
Donna Francisca	p. 114
The Lady of Tejuco	p. 130
The House and the Street	p. 130
Slave Ownership	p. 146
Life in the Village	p. 162
Social Networks	p. 162
Brotherhoods	p. 174
Mines of Splendor	p. 193
The Patron	p. 193
Macaubas	p. 198
Separation	p. 211
The House in Lapa	p. 211
The Diamond Contract	p. 220
Disputes	p. 239
The Grijo Estate	p. 239
The Marian Era	p. 253
Destinies	p. 259
The Donna of Serro do Frio	p. 259
Descendants	p. 261
Chica-que-manda	p. 284
Historical Memory	p. 284
Spreading the Myth	p. 297
Abbreviations	p. 305
Suggested Reading	p. 307
Index	p. 315
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Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

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