“MULHERES DE FONTE E RIO”: SOLICITAÇÃO NO CONFESSIONÁRIO, MISOGINIA E RACISMO NA BAHIA SETECENTISTA

Abstract

This paper analyses the ramifications of a category of crime prosecuted by the Portuguese Inquisition: the crime of solicitation, when priests incurred the harassment of their spiritual daughters in the confessional or throughout the sacrament of confession. It discusses, based on denunciations made to the Holy Office, the web of misogyny and racism that, at times, would appear evident in the words of the men called to testify about the credit, behavior and reputation of those women solicited. The text also searches to analyse how, in the context of the colonial slave system, a stigmatized vision regarding the sexual behavior of black women and their descendants was diffused.