APEP’s collection of the Judiciary is composed of a large number of documents formally drawn up by the various courts, judgeships and public notaries in the State of Pará. The special series “Slaves” was almost entirely digitized. The documents in this series relate to lawsuits in which black sla...
Documents from Judiciary of Belém - Registry - Box 1 1828-1830
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Judiciary documents contained in Box 01. Document 1: (1828) Record of emancipation of Libana Victoria da Silva, Creole slave of Balbina da Silva, a native of Cametá, who recognized that for many years that slave delivered many and elevated services to her. For those, she deserved freedom. She als...
Document 01 (1828) Record of emancipation of Libana Victoria da Silva, Creole slave of Balbina da Silva, a native of Cametá, who recognized that for many years that slave delivered many and elevated services to her. For those, she deserved freedom. She also explained that after her death the Creo...
Document 02 (1828) Record that acknowledges the freedom of Roza Maria do Carmo, African slave from the ‘nation’ Rebollo, mother of the Creole slave Genuína da Anunciação, both properties of Caetano José Pinto, a resident of Muaná, who of free will and spontaneously gives freedom to both.
Document 03 (1828) Record of conditional letter of manumission of Maria Joanna, Black slave of Antonio do Espírito Santo, who by his free will and without constraint gives Maria Joanna her freedom after his death.
Document 04 (1828) Record of the letter of emancipation of the newborn and baptized Creole slave João, son of the Mulatto slave Claudiana, property of Francisca Azevedo de Mendonça, who gives him complete freedom.
Document 09 (1828) Record of the letter of emancipation of Jacinto, African slave from the ‘nation’ Mandingo, who paid 500,000 réis to his former master, Francisco Gonsalves Lima, to buy his freedom.
Document 10 (1828) Record of the letter of emancipation of the newborn Feliciana, daughter of Manoel José and Igrancia Maria, both Black slaves of Lieutenant José Cardoso Castello Branco, all residents of Mojú. Feliciana was to be freed after being baptized at the Cathedral of the See in Belém. H...
Document 11 (1828) Record of the letter of emancipation of Vitorina, Black slave of Maria do Carmo, married to Lt. João Correia Miranda do Carmo, residents of Mojú. Maria do Carmo, by not knowing how to read and write, asked her husband to provide a record of freedom of the slave Vitorina.