Document 14 (1829) Record of sale of the Ladino slaves Joaquim, Fernando, Jorge, Maria Ritta, Joanna, Jesabel, Maria Joaquina, along with the Moleque slaves Manoel Luiz and Ambrósio and the slave child Carlota, belonging to João Pereira Vilaça, who sold them for 1,600,000 réis to Manoel José Anto...
Document 17 (1829) Record of the donation of the Black slave João illegible and the Creole slave Cezario, valued at 1,000,000 réis and 700,000 réis respectively, by Fidelis Carvalho dos Passos and Anna Joaquina Fidelis de Souza Pereira Pinto to Manoel Candido.
Document 34 (1829) Record of the donation made by Sebastião Ignácio José Rodrigues of a young woman named Maria do Nascimento to his daughter Inocencia de Nazareth. Rodrigues explains that his daughter raised the said slave and, for that, she could not be included in his post-mortem inventory.
Manoel Rodrigues, Black/Creole freedman, presented before justice his certificate of emancipation (carta de liberdade), as well as the ones issued to his sister, Camilla Maria da Conceição (Mulatto), and her three minor daughters Luisa, Joanna, and Espiridiana. He asked the judge to legally valid...
Theodorico Constantino da Silveira (Pardo/Mulatto) stated that since August of the previous year he had been freed by his late master, Fidelis Constantino da Silveira Barros. Theodorico said that he had been living as a free person since then and now, with his master’s death, he feared that his h...
Felicidade Maria da Conceição, Black, claimed she had been freed by her late mistress Alexandrina Magno Villas Boas, but her heirs had mortgaged her to a third party. Antonio Paulino de Souza Uchôa, solicitor. Marcelino Marques de Lima, scrivener.
In 1828, Francisca Antonia da Silva asked the judge compliance with a previous legal cancellation of the letters of emancipation of the slaves Felicio, Anna, Susanna, Theresa, Paulina, and Maria. Her ex-husband, Francisco Bernardo Maria, had emancipated said slaves after their divorce. According ...
In 1865, solicitor presented before justice a statement claiming that Martha, minor, was a free person. She was the daughter of the late Major Joaquim Inocencio de Santiago with Romana, his Black slave. For him, Martha was free not because she was the daughter of a free man (laws were clear about...
Maria Ritta, Mulatto slave of the late Maria Antonia Joaquina de Carvalho, had her emancipation bought in public auction by her own son, Raimundo José Bittencourt, for 81,000 réis. João José de Amorim Paiva, scrivener.