Ricardo Figueiredo Pirola

• Abstract

  This research project studies the custom of baptismal manumissions in Campinas between 1774 and 1871, starting from the baptismal records of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Our Lady of the Conception) and cross-referencing them with other documentary sources: population censuses, wills, post-mortem inventories, marriage records, and manumission letters. Through quantitative and …

  Achieving freedom under the Holy Oils: baptismal manumissions in Campinas, 1774-1871, BP.MS

• Abstract

  The objective of this research project is to understand the effects of the Land Act of 1850 in the city of Valença, focusing on the strategies adopted by different social actors in that moment of regularization of land ownership. This research seeks to identify how the creation of a normative system of land regularization allowed the opening of interstitial spaces where individuals acted …

  The "good farmer" and his "encostados": strategies and struggle for land in the city of Valença (1850-1888), BP.MS

• Abstract

  Already an old acquaintance of nineteenth-century Brazilian scholars, Francisco Gê Acaiaba Montezuma, Viscount of Jequitinhonha (1794-1870), constitutes a character that is still scarcely explored by historiography. In the times of the Empire, Jequitinhonha, a free man "of color", as it used to be said, walked through the world of politics and literature, with great strength. Even more, h…

  Dimensions of color and faces of politics in the nineteenth century's Brazil: a study based on the trajectory of the Viscount of Jequitinhonha, BP.DR

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  The aim of this research project is to analyze the impact of lynching that occurred in the United States, between 1850 and 1940, in Brazil. The decades chosen include precisely the years in which the mention of the subject in Brazilian documentation is very frequent (whether in news from newspapers, editorials, political speeches or literature) and also includes the period of greatest inc…

  Lynching in Brazil and the United States: definitions, social control and racial identity (1850 to 1940), BE.PQ

• Abstract

  Recent studies have been pointing to the deep impact of the outbreak and the unrolling of the American Civil War (1861-1865) over discussions about race, abolition and citizenship in slaveholding Brazil. Even so, we can say that only few researchers ventured to explore the subject through the plots of an individual destiny. The proposal presented in the following pages is intended to face…

  Atlantic dilemmas: the resonances of the American Civil War in the thought and political practice of the Viscount of Jequitinhonha, BE.EP.DR