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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
Documents from Judiciary of Bragança - Judgment Law of Bragança - Box 30 1865
Scope & Content:
Judiciary documents contained in Box 30. Document 1: 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 ...
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...
Documents from Judiciary of Santarém - Municipal Court of the District of Santarém - Box 37 1860
Scope & Content:
Judiciary documents contained in Box 37. Document 1: 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 ...