Serra Negra, negra serra: vestígios de uma escravidão

Abstract

This Article is in principle the existing historiographical context in the formation of a cattle farm in the eighteenth century, the banks of the River Espinharas, seeking the hard, demonstrate the slave presence and its importance for the completion and consolidation of the place later became city. In the meantime, the next two centuries, it highlights the cowboy, a mythical figure among the hinterlands, and the Catholic faith, being intrinsically linked to the scenario in question. Old customs, composure and moral principles made of Serra Negra people at the time, quiet and peaceful place.