Dei e deixei de herança: a participação das mulheres nas partilhas de bens nas vilas de Maceió e Porto de Pedras (1830-1850)

Abstract

This Final Course Work entitled “GIVEN AND LEFT AS AN INHERITANCE: the participation of women in the sharing of goods in Maceió and Porto de Pedras between 1830-1850”, seeks to understand the Post-Mortem Inventories and Testaments produced in this section in the Villages of Maceió and Porto de Pedras, belonging to the Province of Alagoas, using the collection available at the Alagoas Public Archive as a primary source. Among the notes we highlight the need to contextualize the studied territory, the process of settlement and foundation of the studied villages, discuss the role of the Catholic Church, and funeral rites in mid-19th century society. It was possible to explore the importance of this documentation as a historiographical source, laws that governed them based on book IV of the Philippine Ordinances, what was considered family in the act of sharing of goods, the role of women as heirs, enslaved black people as merchandise in a quantitative approach of these historical remains. The main results point to the existence of Anna de Souza Sepulvida among the list of inventories and all of her estate, places that she had in her possession at the time of her death, highlighting slavery and the family and constitutional complexities present. By seeking to contribute new reflections and perspectives on century XIX Alagoas society, using methods such as Micro-History and relevant theoretical references.