De fidalgo à agudá: A saga da família De Medeiros do Benim

The text deals with the social identity of the descendants from the Brazilian slave dealers established at the Occidental Africa Cost and the Africans slaved in Brazil that had returned to Africa, known in Benin, Togo and Nigeria as the agudás or the “Brazilians” . The trajectory of De Medeiros family, founded in the middle of the XIX century by Francisco José de Medeiros, son of the Portuguese governor from Madeira Island, is taken as an exemplary case study.The text deals with the social identity of the descendants from the Brazilian slave dealers established at the Occidental Africa Cost and the Africans slaved in Brazil that had returned to Africa, known in Benin, Togo and Nigeria as the agudás or the “Brazilians” . The trajectory of De Medeiros family, founded in the middle of the XIX century by Francisco José de Medeiros, son of the Portuguese governor from Madeira Island, is taken as an exemplary case study.Este texto trata da identidade social dos descendentes de traficantes brasileiros estabelecidos na costa ocidental da África e de africanos escravizados no Brasil para lá retornados, conhecidos no Benim, Togo e Nigéria como agudás ou “brasileiros”, tomando como exemplo a trajetória da família De Medeiros, fundada em meados do século XIX por Francisco José de Medeiros, filho do governador português da Ilha da Madeira