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61. 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

62. 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

63. EAP323/1/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/3/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
Carolina, slave, petitioned emancipation from her master, Emílio Augusto da Cunha Pereira, alleging she was not enrolled in the list of the Emancipation Fund as required by the Law n. 2040 of 28 September 1871 (Article 8, clause 2), also known as the “Law of 1871” or the “Free Womb Law.” Jayme Au...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
TIFF images

64. EAP323/1/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/3/3
Title:
Document 3
Scope & Content:
Felippe José Ferreira solicited the emancipation of his son, Manuel da Silva, minor, slave of Raimundo Thomaz da Silva, resident of the Abaeté County, and offered the amount of 400,000 réis, which was accepted by the judge despite the defendant’s protests. João Pedro Honorato Correia de Miranda, ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1871-1874
Extent:
TIFF images

65. EAP323/1/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/3/4
Title:
Document 4
Scope & Content:
Civil proceedings initiated by the Fiscal Procurator of the Treasury who had finished the classification of the slaves to be freed by the quota designed by the Emancipation Fund to the municipality of Mojú. The procurator informed the judge that the slave Martinha had been classified in first pla...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1871-1874
Extent:
TIFF images

66. EAP323/1/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/3/5
Title:
Document 5
Scope & Content:
Isidoro, Black man, resident at Itapecurú, claimed that in 1874 he had deposited the amount of 400,000 réis on the hands of João Pereira da Silva Ramos, who gave him a receipt (appendix). This money would be used to constitute a peculium to buy Isidoro’s freedom. However, he had been freed at no ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1874
Extent:
TIFF images

67. EAP323/1/14/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/14/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
Belisario and his wife, Ritta, both very old and sick, Black slaves of Domingos José Ferreira and his wife Floriana Maria da Conceição, both deceased, presented before justice the amount of 87,000 réis to buy their manumission. Despite the fact that this amount was considered an adequate amount b...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
TIFF images

68. EAP323/1/14/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/14/5
Title:
Document 5
Scope & Content:
Manuel de Jesus, Mulatto slave, very old and sick, bought his freedom from the heirs of the late couple Narciso Borges do Amaral and Anna Maria Barrozo for 11,428 réis. João Baptista Passos, judge. João José de Amorim Paiva, scrivener.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
TIFF images

69. EAP323/1/6/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/6/3
Title:
Document 3
Scope & Content:
Anna Joaquina filed a complaint with the court arguing that her daughter Catharina, “Cafuza,” was born from a “free womb” (ventre livre). However, Catharina was at that time held in captivity by Thomas Antonio de Sousa Madeira, a resident of the region bordering the river Curatuba, in the Igarapé...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
TIFF images

70. EAP323/1/7/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/7/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
Izidoro Rodrigues do Couto, goldsmith, a resident of the Villa de São Miguel de Melgaço, Breves county, filed a complaint with the court accusing the slave Laurindo and his master, Albino José de Farias e Mello, Portuguese, merchant, of beating severely (with a club) Moisés Cohim, Hebrew. Custodi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

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