“It had no material value, but it had sentimental value”

the black territory of Rosário in the city of Laguna, Santa Catarina

Abstract

This article aims to present memories and narratives about the territory of Rosário in the city of Laguna, southern Santa Catarina. This territory, established in the 19th and 20th centuries, consisted of a chapel, a hill, and a Brotherhood dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, comprised of black men and women from the city. As documentary sources, oral testimonies are brought together with other historical records such as newspapers, photographs, official documents, letters, memoirs, as well as bibliographic sources in order to weave a “memory tapestry”. This proposal is based on a dialogue with a theoretical and methodological approach from a decolonial perspective, engaging with intellectuals from the fields of Postcolonial Studies, Afro-diasporic studies, and Post-Abolition studies.