Caetana & Custodio

CAETANA AND CUSTODIO – MARRIED IN RIO CLARO CATHOLIC SYNOD ISSUED IN SALVADOR DA BAHIA, BRAZILIAN CAPITAL IN 1707 – COMPILATIONS OF LAWS, Constituicoes primeiras – LAWS CONSISTENT WITH CANNON LAW AND THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, APPLIED TO BRAZILIAN CIRCUMSTANCES SLAVES ABLE TO MARRY WITH OTHER SLAVES OR FREE PERSONS – MASTERS WERE NOT TO IMPEDE THE MARRIAGE MARRIAGE WITH PERMISSION OF MASTER CHURCH MARRIAGES PROOF REQUIRED THAT NEITHER PARTNER HAD MARRIED BEFORE WRITTEN DOCUMENT – SINGLE POSTING OF BANNS, FEES FOR THE PRIEST BRAZILIAN OWNERS COUNTED ON FAMILY TIES TO BIND SLAVES IN THEIR FAZENDAS CAETANA’S FAMILY TIES – MOTHER, SISTER, AND UNCLE SISTER’S HUSBAND – Joao Ribeiro da Silva – free mulatto UNCLE’S WIFE – Luisa Jacinta – former slave, freed FAMILY ALLIANCES FIXED BY BLOOD AND MARRIAGE RITUAL OF GODPARENTHOOD – SPIRITUAL PARENTS OF BAPTISM PATTERN OF RITUAL KINSHIP SLAVES CHOSE OTHER SLAVES AS GODPARENTS COMPADRES – COMPADRAZGO RELATIONSHIP – TIES BETWEEN GODPARENTS AND THE CHILD’S PARENTS CAETANA’S REFUSAL TO MARRY CUSTODIO PRESSURE THROUGH LUISA JACINTA – GODMOTHER, IDEAL MEDIATOR WENT THROUGH THE CEREMONY – REFUSED HUSBAND CUSTODIO UNCLE ALEXANDRE – TWO DAYS AFTER, CAETANA STILL REFUSED HER HUSBAND, EVEN AFTER UNCLE ALEXANDRE PLEADED WITH HER TO ACCEPT HUSBAND HER EQUAL AS A SLAVE, YET HE HAD AUTHORITY OVER CAETANA CAETANA – REQUESTED AN ANNULMENT GROUNDS TO FILE ANNULMENT PETITION – ESTABLISHED BY COUNCIL OF TRENT IN 1563 ONLY IF MARRIAGE HAD NOT BEEN CONSUMMATED PARTNER WAS IMPOTENT AND INCAPABLE OF PRODUCING CHILDREN ONE PARTNER WAS ALREADY MARRIED (IF PROVEN) DECIDED AT LATER TIME TO FOREGO MARRIAGE FOR THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF A PRIEST, NUN, OR MONK

PARTNERS WERE RELATED BY BLOOD WITHIN THE PROHIBITED DEGREES OF CONSAGUINITY ANNULMENT DECLARED THAT MARRIAGE NEVER HAD TAKEN PLACE, FORMER SPOUSES FREE TO MARRY OTHERS