Negociações e reciprocidades: interações entre potentados locais e seus escravos armados nas Minas Gerais na primeira metade do século XVIII

Abstract

The text aims to research the habit of local potentates, from the district of Vila Rica, of using armed slaves when they rendered services to the Portuguese Monarch in order to gains royal favors. Hence, we will analyze how, by means of negotiations and reciprocities between potentates and their slaves, the first ones acquired and maintained their power; and, at the same time, what types of benefits and gains the slaves could aspire to obtain with these relations.