Venerable Vulnerables: Female Agencies in Bahian Black Associations from a Third Order of Black Men in the 19th Century
Post-Abolition; Black Associativism; Black Women; Salvador
With this thesis I intend to investigate the possibilities of female agency around the black associations of nineteenth-century Salvador, especially those that make up the network that radiates from the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário das Portas do Carmo. Despite the statutory prohibitions placed on women in these spaces, it is possible to identify their actions inside and outside the door by comparing judicial and ecclesiastical documents with sources produced by the confraternity and other associations. In parallel with the histories of black women who appear to give meaning to order despite a certain invisibility, the trajectory of the brotherhood itself takes on contours that shed light on highlighting its presence, to the detriment of interpretations that insist on announcing its demise.