Poder e hierarquias sociais no presídio de Muxima (Reino de Angola, fins do século XVIII e início do XIX)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the way how slavery and slave trade, as well as the color qualities and military appointments exerted influence over the social hierarchies in the district of Muxima in late eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries, contributing, in turn, to the sedimentation of existing places of command. For this is essential to take into account the transformations experienced not only by Portugal, but also by its overseas dominions during the eighteenth century, especially in the second half of Seventies. This way will be possible to see how African societies contributed to the conformation of the Portuguese monarchy, not only through their hierarchies, but also through the Portuguese structures remodeled in local societies