We study baptisms of slaves. Our focus is on baptized children, their parents, their godparents and their owners, in the context of the economic dynamism based on rice cultivation in Iguape, Vale do Ribeira, in São Paulo. Our sources are parish registers of baptisms and nominative manuscript censuses (“listas nominativas de habitantes”). The analysis is based on nominative crosschecking of these documents.
Baptisms of slaves; rice cultivation in Iguape; economy and demography of slavery