Estratégias para “bem morrer”: testamentos e rituais funerários de alforriados (Mariana, Minas Gerais, c. 1727- c. 1783)

Abstract

This research has as premise to analyze testaments of the manumission, residents of the Term of Mariana, Captaincy of Minas Gerais, between, approximately 1727 and 1783. With this object of study, we seek to understand the strategies of action used by men and women manumission through their attitudes towards death, through of the testaments, aiming to point out the understanding of these egress from captivity, in what refers to what would be a “well to die”. In this way, by studying the funeral rites and the material legacies of the manumission, we are able to reach the subjectivity of each document of last will, through its resources and value orientations, in what it is the performance of these testers manumission, aiming at a spiritual and social ascension at the moment of death.