Neste artigo, abordaram-se as trajet?rias dos africanos, crioulos e mesti?os, constitutivas do quadro religioso e pol?tico das Minas Gerais setecentistas, que conceberam enredos de liberdade nas espec?ficas experi?ncias do cativeiro. Tais enredos, ou pr?ticas, estrat?gias e narrativas dos sujeitos, apesar de serem express?es pessoais, manifestaram os tratos, redes e associa??es dos sujeitos das comunidades escravistas resultantes da di?spora africana. Da? pode-se apreender a din?mica do escravismo, cujos agentes redimensionaram os percursos sociais leg?timos dos africanos e dos afrodescendentes, favorecidos no contexto colonialista pombalino. As pr?ticas religiosas da catolicidade na Am?rica, o eixo da an?lise, forneceram uma chave para a compreens?o mais acurada dessas diversas performances dos escravizados, dos libertos e das pessoas livres de cor na constru??o social de liberdades.In this paper I approached the trajectory of Africans, creoles, and mestizos, great part of the political-religious scenario of seventeenth century Minas Gerais, which generated plots of emancipation in their specific experiences in captivity. Such plots, or practices, strategies, and narratives of these subjects, despite being personal testimonies, set forth traits, networks, and associations of the people in enslaved communities resulted from the African Diaspora. Hence, one can apprehend the dynamics of slavery, whose agents redimensioned the legitimate social routes of the Africans and their descendents, favored in the Pombaline colonial context. The religious practices of Catholicism in America, axis of the present analysis, provide a key to a more accurate comprehension of these various performances of the enslaved, emancipated, as well as free people of color in the social construction of freedom
