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Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP323/1 Digitised Content Platform Endangered Archives Programme

51. EAP323/1/6/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/6/1
Title:
Document 1
Scope & Content:
Lino Antonio, “crioulo”/Creole, widower, an ex-slave and a freedman since 1859, filed a complaint against his former master Antonio Rodrigues Chaves. According to Lino Antonio, despite the fact that he and his wife, Nataria Francisca (deceased), were both freed, Chaves had been trying to convince...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
TIFF images

52. EAP323/1/6/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/6/2
Title:
Document 2
Scope & Content:
Umbelina, Black slave, claimed that in the will of her deceased mistress, Teresa Ignacia de Jesus Fróes, there was a clause setting her free after paying ten years of service to José Raymundo Monteiro. In the copy of the testament, attached to the proceedings, it is possible to know that Teresa F...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
TIFF images

53. 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

54. EAP323/1/6/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/6/4
Title:
Document 4
Scope & Content:
Adrianno (“pardo”/Mulatto), declared before justice that his master, João Romão, had had a debt of 400,000 réis with Fernando Lopes de Azevedo. Romão had then assigned Adrianno to work for Azevedo as long as it was needed to pay his debt. Adrianno claimed that he had worked for Azevedo much more ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
TIFF images

55. EAP323/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/7
Title:
Documents from Judiciary of Breves - Municipal Court of the District of Breves - Box 31
Scope & Content:
Judiciary documents contained in Box 31. Document 1: 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...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
158 Images in TIFF format

56. 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

57. EAP323/1/7/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/7/2
Title:
Document 2
Scope & Content:
Manoel da Costa Gomes sued Raimunda, “carafuza,” and her former master, Bento Dias Pereira, for 600,000 réis. He had lent to Raimunda this amount of money to buy her freedom in exchange for six years of work. According to Gomes, she had not fulfilled this agreement. José Cisneiro Baratinha, judge...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

58. EAP323/1/7/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/7/3
Title:
Document 3
Scope & Content:
A group of individuals, comprising two families of slaves, started a civil action for their emancipation. Casimiro Antonio Porfirio and his mother Raymunda Maria dos Santos, along with Anna and her siblings Jezuina Maria da Gloria, Luduvina Francisca da Roza, Joanna Gonzaga Lameira and Ovidio Tho...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

59. EAP323/1/7/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/7/4
Title:
Document 4
Scope & Content:
Vicente Manoel Ferreira, slave, claimed that he had been freed by his late mistress, Joanna Maria Ferreira, before her death as shown in a document attached to the proceedings. However, without his mistress knowledge, her husband had sold him to captain Antonio Joaquim Lobato de Miranda, and his ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
TIFF images

60. EAP323/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP323/1/8
Title:
Documents from Judiciary of Breves - Municipal Court of the District of Breves - Box 32
Scope & Content:
Judiciary documents contained in Box 32. Document 1: Cezario, slave, claimed that he wanted to work in favor of his emancipation, but his master, Marcelino José Rodrigues Castillo, did not allow him to do so. For that, he asked the judge to assign him a solicitor for the legal proceedings, and a ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
070 Images in TIFF format

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