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EAP323/1/7
- Record Id:
- 040-002841116
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002841062
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023625514.0x000037
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- 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 severely (with a club) Moisés Cohim, Hebrew. Custodio Mariano dos Santos, judge. Ludgéro Almeida Salasar, scrivener. Document 2: 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. Pedro Ferreira de Lacerda, scrivener. Document 3: 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 Thomas d’Aquino, also representing their grandmother, Catharina, and mother, Margarida, as well their sister Virginia Paulina dos Santos, all slaves, requested justice to issue to them certificates of manumission. They claimed that their deceased master, captain Joaquim Gonçalves dos Santos, freed them all in his testament (attached). Since his death they were living together as free persons in a place called Bella Vista, on the river Laguna banks, Villa de Melgaço, Breves county. This plot of land had also been left to them in the will of their late master. Ludgéro Almeida Salasar, scrivener. Document 4: 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 right to freedom has been violated since then. He demanded a legal act of manumission to be issued. Francisco Xavier da Costa, solicitor. Ludgéro Almeida Salasar, scrivener. Extent of original material: Box (cardboard)24,5cm X 15cm X 36cm04 documents158 pages.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Endangered African diaspora collections of the state of Pará in the Amazon region of Brazil
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002841062
040-002841116 - Is part of:
- EAP323/1 : Judiciary documents on Slavery 1828-1874
EAP323/1/7 : Documents from Judiciary of Breves - Municipal Court of the District of Breves - Box 31 - Contains:
- EAP323/1/7/1 : Document 1
EAP323/1/7/2 : Document 2
EAP323/1/7/3 : Document 3
EAP323/1/7/4 : Document 4
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- 032-002841062[0007]/040-002841116
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP323/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 158 Images in TIFF format
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP323-1-7 (opens in a new tab)
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- Languages:
- Portuguese
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
- User Conditions:
- Access is for research purposes only
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- Former External References:
- JM 31
- Information About Originals:
- Arquivo Público do Estado do Pará. Civil Courts and Registries of Belém and 35 other counties.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)