Document 17: (1880) Legal proceedings related to the classification of slaves to be freed by the emancipation fund in the county of São José do Acará. Joaquim Martins da Silva, scrivener.
Document 18: (1878) Legal proceedings related to the classification of slaves to be freed by the emancipation fund in the county of Acará. Joaquim Martins da Silva, scrivener.
Document 19: (1877) Legal proceedings related to the classification of slaves to be freed by the emancipation fund in the county of Mojú. Joaquim Martins da Silva, 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 ...
Francisco da Silva Figueiredo and his wife Constância Maria G. F. Figueiredo donated their slave, Angélica, to Antônio da Silva Cruz, Pedro Nolasco da Silva Cruz and Etelvina da Silva Cruz. Jayme Augusto Oliveira da Gama, scrivener.
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 ...
In 1826, Narcisa do Carmo, Black slave, concubine of her master José Antonio Ribeiro, received from him authorization to demand before justice the right to inherit the assets left by her late sister, Severina Rosa, freed Black, single, no children. In order to prove the sisterhood she presented b...
In 1851, the newborn slaves Severino and João were put to legal appraisal by the Santa Casa de Misericórdia (or Hospital do Senhor Bom Jesus da Caridade), a hospital linked to the Catholic Church. The Santa Casa owned their parents, Sabino Marcos (Black, carpenter, married to the Black slave Mari...
In 1888, Jezuina, Black slave of the commendator Alvaro Pinto de Pontes e Souza, wanted to indemnify her master by paying for her freedom the amount under which she was enrolled in the Fundo de Emancipação (emancipation fund), according to the law of 28 September 1885. For not being able to repre...
Constancio, slave, 50 years old, petitioned emancipation from his master, José Domingues dos Reis Sobrinho, and produced the amount of 500,000 réis for this end. Antonio Francisco Pinheiro, solicitor. Arminio Adolpho Pontes e Souza, judge. Marcelino Marques de Lima, scrivener.