## The reconstruction of the religious space  
While the slave trade turned Africans into a commodity, Portuguese society organized operations aimed at strengthening their depersonalization and de-socialization, in order to eliminate their Africanity. Having lost the land, lineage, language and name, Africans sought to reconstruct a new and autonomous identity, associating Portuguese cultural practices with African civilizational values, deeply marked by their own historical singularity, creating unprecedented socio-cultural forms.  
Since kinship, religion and music form the foundations of the existential forms of Africans, it is understood that the conditions under which they were transferred to Europe, as well as to the American colonies, were manifestly antithetic to the maintenance of such structures. In the absence of kinship that is, of the extended family, which includes both the living and the dead who remained in Africa - Africans, culturally very diverse, adhered to Portuguese ludic and religious spaces, associating themselves through religion, which by its invisible nature could remain in the tight frame of their experiences, not forgetting the fact that religions are almost always marked by religious tensions.  
If the sacred territories of the Portuguese and the African did not coincide and if it is easy to see that authorities and the clergy had sought to dismantle African religions, claimed to be too dependent on 'spells' or 'idols' - so-called