This paper aims to contribute to the research methodology of the social dynamics in Portuguese America's society, which was established after the conquest, through the analysis of aspects of life strategies of mulatto slaves and former slaves - as Efigênia Angola, Francisca Muniz and other social individuals - in the Rural Church Districts of Rio de Janeiro, during the eighteenth century. The analysis was developed from crossing of information from parish registers of baptisms, visitations in Ecclesiastical and postmortem inventories, with the approaches of the serial history's techniques and Italian micro-history.
Brazilian slavery; rural elite colonial; Portuguese overseas empire; methodology of social history.