Os assim chamados ciganos na capitania da Bahia (século XVIII)

Abstract

Throughout the modern age, the so called gypsies integrated the list of the “undesired” inside the Portuguese metropolis. Therefore, far and wide the three centuries the Royal authorities produced a deep legislation turned toward the gypsy groups that had lived in Portugal, enforcing outnumbered coercive rules and constant penalties of exile to the ultramarines Portuguese colonies. During the 18th century, the gypsy exile toward the American colony, has became more and more systematic, featuring the Captaincy of Bahia, that constituted the main “exiling place” of the gypsies in the Portuguese America, reckoning a regular landing of gypsy families at the port of Salvador. In this way, on this very paper, we are targeting as main objective the developing of an analysis about the methods of insertion of the gypsies into the 18th century society from Bahia, regarding to the ethnic reorganizations and socioeconomical occupations that were possible to them in the city of Salvador and in the backlands (The Sertão zone) of Bahia