Quiteria Maria da Conceição and her son Raymundo (minor), both slaves of André Cursino Gomes, for not being enrolled in the Emancipation Fund requested the nomination of a solicitor to carry on their case in order to be declared legally free. Tiberio Augusto Freire da Motta, solicitor. Arminio Ad...
João de Deos, slave, claimed that his master, Hermenegildo Pereira Lima, did not enrolled him in the Emancipation Fund for which he should be bestowed with a certificate of emancipation (carta de liberdade), except for the “direitos dominicais” (Sunday rights) conceded to his master by law. João ...
Laura, Black slave, denounced the heirs of the late Isabel Ovidia de Resende for bringing her to Belém to be sold without a valid certificate, since she had not been enrolled in the Emancipation Fund by them. Such fact entitled her to be legally freed. She feared her master’s violent behavior and...
In 21 October 1887, Hermina, slave, petitioned her emancipation because her master, Luiz Antonio Gonçalves, did not enrolled her in the list of the Fund of Emancipation as required by law. She was still fighting for her freedom in 20 April 1888, less than one month before the complete abolition o...
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...
