Colonials corruption: the captaincy of São Paulo in Morgado de Mateus and Lobo de Saldanha governments

• Grant number: 20/09226-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2021
• End date: January 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Andrea Slemian
• Grantee: Marina Passos Tufolo
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present project aims to discuss the complaints against magistrates contained in the petitions processed by the government, understanding their paths, the instances they reached and whether corrective procedures for unwanted behavior would be generated. The documents to be analyzed are part of the Overseas Historical Archives and the São Paulo State Archives, and focus on the positions of outside judges, orphans and twenty judges, ombudsmen and judge from the Morgado de Matheus government until the by Lobo de Saldanha (1765-1782). Based on this documentation, an attempt will be made to build a typology about the problems surrounding the positions, as well as to map the main complaints taking the petitions as central mechanisms of manifestation in the Colonial Era. Than, we intend to elaborate the hypothesis that petitionary complaints in governmental channels ended up playing, in the limit, a disciplinary role in the behavior of these agents. (AU)