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 ...
Bonifacia, Black, blind (medical report attached), slave of João Ferreira Dias and his wife, was promised to be freed against the payment of 200,000 réis. However the agreement was not fulfilled by her masters despite the fact she had the necessary amount. Bonifacia can provide witnesses of her m...
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...
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 trustee who would keep the amount of 700,000 réis tha...
In 1860, João de Mattos Ferreira Campos sold to Geronimo da Motta de Siqueira (550,000 réis) the Mulatto slave Evaristo Lopes de Paula, approx. 20 years old, who “bears all vices practiced by mulattoes, and without any type of warranty.” Paula escaped, but after a while presented himself before h...
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...
Domiciana, 35 years old, slave, resident of Carmelio, in the Acará county, said that her daughter, Hilaria, a freed woman, has given her 300,000 réis to buy her freedom from João Alves de Menezes, her master. However, for being in jail, she petitioned the magistrate to appoint a curator to deal w...
Albina Maria da Conceição, African (born in Luanda, Angola), single, 30 years old, “branded with a hot iron on the right breast, with the form of an I,” had been held as slave by a certain F. de Figueiredo, despite the fact that she had been freed as soon as she arrived from the Coast of Africa. ...
Francisco Ribeiro, slave, deposited 800,000 réis that he had received from his aunt Joanna Theodorica to buy his emancipation. However, being in jail (Cadeia Pública) by order of the Chief of Police and his master Anastacio de Souza Monteiro Cardoso, he could not deal with the legal proceedings a...