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131. EAP323/1/7/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/7/2
Title:
Document 2
Scope & Content:
Manoel da Costa Gomes sued Raimunda, “carafuza,” and her former master, Bento Dias Pereira, for 600,000 réis. He had lent to Raimunda this amount of money to buy her freedom in exchange for six years of work. According to Gomes, she had not fulfilled this agreement. José Cisneiro Baratinha, judge...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

132. EAP323/1/7/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/7/3
Title:
Document 3
Scope & Content:
A group of individuals, comprising two families of slaves, started a civil action for their emancipation. Casimiro Antonio Porfirio and his mother Raymunda Maria dos Santos, along with Anna and her siblings Jezuina Maria da Gloria, Luduvina Francisca da Roza, Joanna Gonzaga Lameira and Ovidio Tho...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

133. EAP323/1/7/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/7/4
Title:
Document 4
Scope & Content:
Vicente Manoel Ferreira, slave, claimed that he had been freed by his late mistress, Joanna Maria Ferreira, before her death as shown in a document attached to the proceedings. However, without his mistress knowledge, her husband had sold him to captain Antonio Joaquim Lobato de Miranda, and his ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

134. EAP323/1/8/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/8/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
Cezario, slave, claimed that he wanted to work in favor of his emancipation, but his master, Marcelino José Rodrigues Castillo, did not allow him to do so. For that, he asked the judge to assign him a solicitor for the legal proceedings, and a trustee who would keep the amount of 700,000 réis tha...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

135. EAP323/1/8/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/8/2
Title:
Document 2
Scope & Content:
Captain Bento Dias Pereira, on behalf of Isabel, the mother of Clarindo, a child slave of the heirs of Manoel Dias da Silva and his wife, offered to deposit 200,000 réis to start a peculium for the future purchase of Clarindo’s freedom. Thomas Proteslato da Silva, judge. Estevão do Nascimento Alv...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

136. EAP323/1/8/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/8/3
Title:
Document 3
Scope & Content:
Idalina, slave of Belchior Sanches de Brito and his wife, Barbara Pedroso de Brito, residents on the banks of the “igarapé” Jacaré (creek), Breves county, requested legal act of emancipation alleging her masters had not enrolled her in the Emancipation Fund, as required by law. Idalina was the da...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

137. EAP323/1/9/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
Margarida Maria da Conceição, slave, stated she had deposited 330,000 réis on the hands of José Rodrigues Ramos, plus 150,000 réis that she had received from late Domingos de Figueiredo. Both amounts would serve to buy her freedom. She requested the judge ordered that, at the prompt of twenty-fou...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

138. EAP323/1/9/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/2
Title:
Document 2
Scope & Content:
On behalf of Isabel Victoria Serrão, slave, Heraclio Vespasiano Fisch Romano, solicited her freedom alleging that her certificate of emancipation (carta de liberdade) had been canceled due to a legal mistake. Captain Francisco de Paula Correa Lobato, master. Antonio Ayres de Lacerda Chermont, jud...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

139. EAP323/1/9/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/3
Title:
Document 3
Scope & Content:
Manoel Rodrigues, Black/Creole freedman, presented before justice his certificate of emancipation (carta de liberdade), as well as the ones issued to his sister, Camilla Maria da Conceição (Mulatto), and her three minor daughters Luisa, Joanna, and Espiridiana. He asked the judge to legally valid...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

140. EAP323/1/9/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/4
Title:
Document 4
Scope & Content:
Anacleto, Black slave of Ignacio Joaquim Cordeiro, was presented before justice by Belém’s chief of police. Anacleto said that he had the necessary amount (600,000 réis) to buy his freedom and that his master had agreed with the arrangement. Francisco Carlos Mariano, solicitor. Antonio Francisco ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

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