Abstract:
Pointing out the strategies of collaboration and resistance developed by blacks during the Pernambuco sugar wars in the dialogue with recent research on social-racial classification in the colonial world is the aim of this article. In the most classic historiographical approaches, the participation of blacks in the Time of the Flemings came down to the dimension of the Dutch’s position regarding slavery and catechesis. The nativist approach laid the foundations for the primacy of African resistance, based on the flagship experience of Henrique Dias and the Rosary of the Blacks. On the other hand, Afro-Batavian associations in terms of individual collaboration or cooperation with the new dominators were silenced by historiography. The microanalysis of Portuguese and Dutch colonial documentation allows us to recover the black ambivalences that characterize the behaviors integrated into the Luso-Dutch conflict.
Keywords:
Pernambuco sugar wars; Afro-Batavian associations; Black ambivalences