Maria Natalia, you are right.
I can say I have seen this countless times from the 1700s forward on Terceira and Pico. If I were to pay attention to it elsewhere, I'm sure other places could be included, like Sao Miguel where I suspect you saw it.
I'm not arguing one way or another about Joao's ancestral line. That takes in-depth study which he has done. But it certainly was a fact freed slaves were married to other regular citizens in the community. In fact, I have an ancestor from Sao Bento, Terceira whose son or daughter married the child of a slave. This was about 1700, if I recall.
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Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Help linking Pai Incognitos in Ponta
Delgada, Flores
From: mnk <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, September 26, 2014 5:06 am
To: [email protected]
I just want to say that I have seen a marriage of a slave to a free person. I can't remember what village I was searching when I saw it, but it was possibly Ginetes. I just remember because I had never seen that before. Maybe the priest in your case was progressive or anti-slavery so he did not mention race or status of the women.
MNK
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