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141. EAP323/1/9/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/5
Title:
Document 5
Scope & Content:
Theodorico Constantino da Silveira (Pardo/Mulatto) stated that since August of the previous year he had been freed by his late master, Fidelis Constantino da Silveira Barros. Theodorico said that he had been living as a free person since then and now, with his master’s death, he feared that his h...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

142. EAP323/1/9/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/6
Title:
Document 6
Scope & Content:
Maria José, Parda/Mulatto, and her son Jorge, both slaves of major Gaspar Valente Cordeiro, solicited to be nominated a solicitor for them and that an evaluation of their price was conducted in order to launch the proceedings for their legal emancipation. Carlos Hypolito de Santa Helena, judge. M...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

143. EAP323/1/9/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/7
Title:
Document 7
Scope & Content:
Felicidade Maria da Conceição, Black, claimed she had been freed by her late mistress Alexandrina Magno Villas Boas, but her heirs had mortgaged her to a third party. Antonio Paulino de Souza Uchôa, solicitor. Marcelino Marques de Lima, scrivener.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

144. EAP323/1/9/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/8
Title:
Document 8
Scope & Content:
Anna Maria do Carmo, Parda/Mulatto slave of João da Fonseca Freitas, farmer, a resident of Marajó-Assú, solicited to be legally freed because her master had declared several times that she was free in the presence of various witnesses. She was accompanied by her uncle João Carlos Mariano and the ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

145. EAP323/1/9/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/9
Title:
Document 9
Scope & Content:
Bernardino Rodrigues Valente do Couto said that Francisco, slave of Francisco de Souza Mesquita, a resident of Manaus, was put under his care by the chief of police because his master was treating him badly. He demands an appraisal of the slave’s price in order to initiate emancipation legal proc...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

146. EAP323/1/9/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/9/10
Title:
Document 10
Scope & Content:
Theodora and her minor children, Luis, Emilia, and Joanna, slaves of Firmino José de Souza, were freed by fair payment. During the proceedings, the three children were put under the care of Theodora’s life companion, Eloy, Black, who would keep them until the final judicial decision. Theodora die...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

147. EAP323/1/10/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/10/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
In 1865, solicitor presented before justice a statement claiming that Martha, minor, was a free person. She was the daughter of the late Major Joaquim Inocencio de Santiago with Romana, his Black slave. For him, Martha was free not because she was the daughter of a free man (laws were clear about...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1865
Extent:
TIFF images

148. EAP323/1/11/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/11/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
In 1860, João de Mattos Ferreira Campos sold to Geronimo da Motta de Siqueira (550,000 réis) the Mulatto slave Evaristo Lopes de Paula, approx. 20 years old, who “bears all vices practiced by mulattoes, and without any type of warranty.” Paula escaped, but after a while presented himself before h...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1860
Extent:
TIFF images

149. EAP323/1/12/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/12/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
In 1868, Leandro, Black slave, 11 years old (“moleque”), was sold in public auction (300,000 réis) for the payment of legal fees charged on the account of his late master’s probate proceedings. Domingos Gesualdo, master. Francisco Leonardo de Souza Miranda Couto, judge. Joaquim Ferreira da Silva ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
TIFF images

150. EAP323/1/13/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/13/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
In 1812, the financially stressed heirs of the late Joanna Maria, wife of the already deceased Francisco José de Abreu, conducted a public auction of Maria Antonia, African slave (“nação mexicongo”). She was appraised at 150,000 réis, and was acquired shortly after by Antonio Joaquim Ferreira de ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
TIFF images

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