Coordinated by professor Aldair Rodrigues, this projects aims to collect and disclose information about the enslaved population that lived in Minas Gerais in the 18th century. Its main goals are: a) to gain knowledge about the origins of Africans and their descendants, based on their “nations”, making it possible to locate new traffic routes in the African continent according to this classification; b) to offer elements regarding the social experience of Africans that lived in the mining region; c) to provide biographic approaches through tracking the same person at different moments of life; d) to allow Brazilian citizens descending from Africans to track genealogies of their ancestors; e) to build interactive digital atlases to be used in classes of elementary and middle school, contributing to the implementation of Law 10.639/2003, which made mandatory the teaching of History of Africa and Afro-Brazilian Culture. The database’s main information is collected from notarial, tax, prison, and inquisitorial documents preserved in colonial archives.
