Famílias, casas e engenhos: a preservação do patrimônio no Rio de Janeiro (Piedade do Iguaçu e Jacutinga, século XVII-XVIII)

Abstract

The research’s goal is to analyse, by means of a longitudinal study, seigniorial families that belonged their material and immaterial Wealth base in Parishes of Rio de Janeiro, which established the conquer of the land or occupied the apex of the social and economic hierarchy in that places. We verified that they earned by land purchasing, relatives’ formation and rituals, slaveholding, free workers establishment in their farms, among other outlines. We are going to analyse seigniorial families of two Parishes, Nossa Senhora da Piedade and Santo Antonio de Jacutinga, situated in Recôncavo da Guanabara. The cutting time adopted is about the families’ managerial survival historical in 17th century to 18th century when it was the period that had the biggest growth of the sugar and feed production.