Document 01: (1872) Legal proceedings to free Anna, Black slave, and her children Veronica, Manuel, Leoncio and Esperidião, who belonged to the family of the deceased Pedro da Costa Barral. Anna was married to Lourenço Antonio da Costa, freed Black, overseer. Raymundo R. Leal Castello Branco, sol...
Document 02: (1873) Legal proceedings to ensure the safeguard of the peculium intended to free slaves enrolled in the emancipation fund. José Gonçalves Nogueira, scrivener.
Document 03: (1874) Legal proceedings for the arbitration on the case of Salustiano, Black slave of Gil Antonio Pedroza. Salustiano was priced at 1,000,000 (a million or one ‘conto’ de) réis. Guilherme de Jesus Mesquita and José Antonio Pará, solicitors. Joaquim Martins da Silva, scrivener.
Document 04: (1874) Legal proceedings to free Innocencia, Mulatto slave, belonging to Michaela Angela dos Passos and José Antonio Siqueira. Innocencia presents certificates issued in both cities of Cametá and Belém proving that she was not enrolled in the emancipation fund to receive letter of ma...
Document 05: (1874) Legal proceedings for the delivery of peculium belonging to Leopoldino Alberto do Nascimento, Black slave of Major Bernadino de Senna Lameira. Lameira demanded 1,000,000 (a million or one ‘conto’ de) réis for Nascimento’s freedom. The slave had saved only 600,000 réis, which w...
Document 06: (1875) Legal record of public auction where three Black slaves belonging to the minor heirs of the late Francisco Antonio da Silva where purchased by Antonio Andrea Capper as follows: Torquato, 18 years old (1,000,000 réis); Angélica, 19 yrs old (700,000 réis); and her daughter, Chri...
Document 07: (1876) Legal proceedings to free Rufina, Black slave, 70 years old, for 50,000 réis. Rufina belonged to the late Mariana Rodrigues Martins and was put to sell by the executor of her will, Francisco Fernandes de Monteiro. Major Raymundo Alves da Cunha bought Rufina’s “freedom.” In exc...
Document 08: (1877) Legal proceedings related to a petition issued by the General Prosecutor of the Treasury, José Rodrigues Pereira, complaining against the ways slaves had been classified in the lists of the emancipation fund. Joaquim Martins da Silva, scrivener.
Document 09: (1877) Legal proceedings related to the classification of slaves to be freed by the emancipation fund in the county of Ourém. Joaquim Martins da Silva, scrivener.
Document 10: (1877) Legal proceedings opened by the petition made by Sebastião Paes, Black slave, approx. 26 years old, single, bricklayer, able to read and write, good behavior. His owner, Lourenço Paes de Sousa, priced him in 900,000 réis. However, Sebastião complained that his name did not app...
