André Roberto de Arruda Machado

• Abstract

  An analysis of the modes of compulsory labor practiced in road construction in Minas Gerais from 1840 to 1870 is being carried out with a specific focus on recruitment methods of indigenous populations, that lived in the eastern part of the province, bordering Bahia, Espírito Santo, and Rio de Janeiro. Despite the absence of legal backing, rulers, military personnel, and settlers continue…

  Paths of exclusion in Brazilian empire: indigenous compulsory labor in road construction in the Minas Gerais province (1840-1870), BP.MS

• Abstract

  This project has as main objective to understand how the Portuguese residents of Grão-Pará were affected by the Cabanagem. In other words, it is a question of investigating the relation and the point of view of the Portuguese in the face of a revolt that, in many historiographical works, is seen as a direct consequence of the growing Antilusitanism in the province. However, it is based on…

  To be Portuguese in times cabanos: the relations between Cabanagem and the Portuguese in Grão-Pará (1835-1840), BP.MS

• Abstract

  This project discusses attempts to integrate indigenous populations to the Portuguese world, from the split of Pombal policies in the captaincy of Rio Negro and Pará in the second half of the eighteenth century. To do so, take the newly created villages and places of these two captaincies as analysis, dealing specifically with indigenous social roles, constructed and reinvented, when the …

  The Pombal towns of the captaincy of the Rio Negro and Pará (1755 - 1798): indigenous integration policies, negotiations and conflicts, BP.IC

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

• Abstract

  The goal of this research is to analyze the modes of employment of indigenous labor in the province of Pará, between the years of 1832 and 1835, verifying the nature of the conflicts resulting from the forced labor of those free populations. The hypothesis of this research is that, even with no legal backing from 1831 on, indigenous compulsory labor continued to be used in the province. I…

  Between heritage and reinvention: conflicts around indigenous labor in the province of Pará in the context of the Americas (1832-35), BE.PQ