Andanças femininas no Atlântico: mulheres escravas processadas pelo Santo Ofício da Inquisição de Portugal (séculos XVII e XVIII)

Abstract

The purpose of this scientific work is to take a look at three women figures who, once enslaved on the African continent or in the colonial lands of Brazilian companies, were sued in the Court of Justice responsible for controlling consciences, the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The intention is to analyze and monitor the lives of these women, Páscoa, Luzia and Catarina Maria who, in the 18th Century, left Brazil and Africa (Angola) and came to live in Lisbon, trapped in the inquisitorial prison. To make an individual analysis, seeking to reveal the female presence alongside two different historical phenomena, slavery and the Inquisition, it is intended to demonstrate the different facets of their lives: conflicts, strategies, punishments and, mainly, the wander through a space so diverse, the Ibero-American Atlantic.