摘要：In this study we present some considerations regarding potentialities and boundaries of the use of some documental sources for the study of the slave population and family in Franca, between 1806 and 1888. By choosing the study of the demography and of the slave family, we draw on nominative sources, such as parochial records (baptism, marriage, and death), inhabitants’ nominative lists, and post-mortem inventories, information that allow nominative crosschecking. We draw attention to the fact that there are other possible sources of analyzing slavery, although the aforementioned sources have been effectively used in historical and de-mographical studies to evince and unveil individual and family trajectories that marked the slavery in Brazil during the colonial and imperial time. Furthermore, we aim to serve as a guide to new (or not so much) historians who intend to pursue slavery studies in Franca and other regions in the state of São Paulo.
