Robson Pedrosa Costa

e-mail | robsoncosta@edu.ulisboa.pt

Robson Pedrosa Costa is a teacher at the Instituto Federal de Pernambuco (Federal Institute of Pernambuco, Brazil) and Auxiliary Researcher at Centre for History at the University of Lisbon. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow with funding from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions program, within the scope of the SLAVESRELIGION project – “Slaves of Religion: Paternalism and Resistance, Brazil” (HORIZON-MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021, GA nº 101065425). In 2022 he published the book “Paternalism, Transgression and Slave Resistance in Brazil” (De Gruyter Oldenbourg). His most recent publications include “‘Sweet Masters’: the Order of Saint Benedict and the ‘Good Treatment’ of slaves, Brazil, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries” (2021) in Historia Crítica; “Nicolau de Souza: the trajectory of a slave-owning slave, Brazil, 1812-1835” (2021) in Forum Historiae Iuris. In 2023 he published (in partnership with Cassia Roth) the article “‘Maria Simoa, Who Birthed Twenty-Four Children’: slavery, motherhood, and freedom on the Benedictine Estates, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1866-1871” (in Hispanic American Historical Review). His work focuses on Benedictine properties, slavery, slaves-owning slaves, gender, motherhood and marriage.