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      DE ESCRAVO A RICO LIBERTO: A TRAJETÓRIA DO AFRICANO MANOEL JOAQUIM RICARDO NA BAHIA OITOCENTISTA Translated title: FROM SLAVE TO WEALTHY FREEDMAN: THE LIFE STORY OF MANOEL JOAQUIM RICARDO, AFRICAN, IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BAHIA

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          Resumo O artigo discute a biografia de Manoel Joaquim Ricardo, africano haussá que desembarcou na Bahia no início do século XIX como cativo e morreu em 1865 como forro e rico. Sua vida no Brasil permite perceber as possibilidades e limitações à ascensão social dos africanos sob a escravidão e em liberdade. Entre os mecanismos de mobilidade, como era de praxe na época, Ricardo investiu em escravos desde a época em que, ele próprio, ainda era escravo, um fenômeno raramente abordado pela historiografia. Mas também adquiriu e alugou imóveis, negociou (fez mesmo o tráfico transatlântico e interno de escravos), emprestou a juros, entre outras atividades. Outras dimensões de sua trajetória aqui abordadas são, a vida familiar e religiosa, incluindo sua rede de compadrio e relações com gente do Candomblé. O artigo propõe o conceito de ladinização para entender a experiência de africanos como Ricardo, mesmo que não tão bem sucedidos como ele no mundo material.

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          Abstract The article discusses Manuel Joaquim Ricardo's life trajectory, an African of Hausa origin who disembarked in Bahia in the early nineteenth century as slave and died there as a rich freedman in 1865. His life in Brazil allows us to understand the possibilities and limitations to the Africans' social mobility under slavery and in freedom. Among the mechanisms towards mobility, as was the usual thing to do then, Ricardo invested in slaves since the time when he was a slave himself, a phenomenon that is rarely covered by the historiography. He also acquired and rented real state property, negotiated with food and slaves (in both the transatlatic and internal trades) loaned money for interest, among other business activities. Other dimensions of his trajectory covered here are his family and religious life, which included his compadrio network and his dealings with candomblé people. The article sugests the concept of ladinization as a tool to understand the life experience of Africans like Ricardo, even those who did not succeed in the material world as he did.

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                Revista de História (São Paulo)
                Rev. Hist. (São Paulo)
                Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de História
                2316-9141
                June 2016
                : 0
                : 174
                : 14-67
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                [1 ] Universidade Federal da Bahia Brazil
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                S0034-83092016000100014
                10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2016.108145
                cce20709-1f73-428f-a3ed-2b4a78885b7e

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                Biography,slavery,freedom,social mobility,19th-century Bahia,Biografia,escravidão,liberdade,mobilidade social,Bahia oitocentista

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