"Por ser Pernambuco tão chegado"

anexação, governos e mercados ultramarinos na Capitania da Paraíba (1791-1799)

Abstract

In 1794, in one of the last episodes of that century with regard to the
intercolonial trade in North captaincies a royal order authorized the
commercial trafficking between producing areas of the Captaincy of
Paraiba and the port of Recife, the main commercial hub of the region.
The royal authorization was issued in the throes of the so-called period of
annexation (1756-99), when Paraíba was subordinated to the government
of Pernambuco, and contradicted the plans of the then governor of Paraíba,
the chief captain Jerónimo de Mello e Castro, who wished to create
political and economic mechanisms that allow recovering the autonomy of
the Captaincy. Thus, the relationship between the local sphere, represented
by interactions between producers and dealers in North captaincies, and
the imperial sphere, which exposed the interest of the Portuguese Crown
at the end of the century, to promote intercolonial trade, will be the prime
object of this article.