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...
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.
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, ...
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...
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 ...
Documents from Judiciary of Belém - Judgment of Law of the Capital (Second Court and Civil) - Box 4
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Judiciary documents contained in Box 4. Document 1: 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. Marce...
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.
Amelia ,‘Carafusa’ (Cafuzo, Black/Indigenous mixed blood), slave of Archangela Maria da Conceição, and her daughter Francisca, slave of Archangela’s daughter, Joanna de Pinho, claimed that for not being enrolled in the Emancipation Fund they were entitled to be legally freed. Carlos Hyppolito de ...
Francisca, 55 years old, slave, claimed that her deceased master, Angelo Custodio Correa, and mistress, the Baroness of Cametá, wished to free her before their deaths and she can provide several witnesses. Nonetheless, their daughter, Joanna, has kept Francisca in captivity. Augusto Carlos de Mou...
Isabel Maria da Silva, slave, claimed that she had not been enrolled in the Emancipation Fund neither by her deceased master, captain Manoel Antonio Rodrigues, or by his heirs, which was against the Law of 1871 and, for that, she petitioned to be legally freed. Samuel W. Mac Donald, solicitor. Ma...