 In Évora, men were owned and used as slaves by female establishments like convents for nuns.Three male slaves and three female slaves were given to the nuns of Montemor by the alcaide-mor's widow.In order to "serve those who serve God" and being told to obey orders "in all things that they ordered them", a boy named Manual along with his slave mother were given to the Nuns of Montemor by father Jorge Fernandes in 1544.