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| Author(s): |
Luma Ribeiro Prado
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2019-10-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron;
Rafael Ivan Chambouleyron;
Marcia Eliane Alves de Souza e Mello;
Jaime Alberto Valenzuela márquez
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| Advisor: | Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron |
| Abstract | |
The present dissertation is a study on freedom demands made by enslaved indigenous people to Portuguese Amazonian courts between 1706 and 1759. Indigenous men and women were recruited in the backwoods (sertão) to serve as free and captive workers in colonial areas. Until 1755 just wars and ransom were means of captivity reduction provided by law. Nevertheless, illegal enslavement practices were frequent, leading to numerous unjust captivities. From Mendonça Furtados government on, enslavement was no longer allowed, though native work was still the main workforce source. In this context, colony-residents and Crown disputed indigenous workforce recruiting control and exploration and indigenous women, men and their descendants which were illegally enslaved or which were still captives during Lei de Liberdade dos Índios (\"Indigenous Freedom Law\", 1755) enforcement mobilized judicial instruments aiming the improvement of their life and work conditions. Petitions, appeals and requirement were presented by captives specially women or by their attorneys-in-fact to the members of Junta das Missões and even to the king, shaping a place of indigenous action on justice(s) spheres during the XVIII century. In this dissertation such demands shall be analyzed aiming to understand the use made by indigenous captives of judicial mechanisms, as well as to label the institutional way as a counter position to captivity. We shall also argue that indigenous demands record illegal enslavement practices made by colony-residents and also mark captivity tensioning and labor relocation propositions made by captive indigenous litigants. The analysis of the disputes on freedom shall be the entrance door to the exploration of labor world in Portuguese Amazon and it shall lead us to the confrontation of indigenous legislation and colonial judicial practice. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/18462-9 - Actions of freedom: the justice use by female and male indigenous in the Portuguese Amazon, 18th century |
| Grantee: | Luma Ribeiro Prado |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |