Revista de fontes
type: channel
description: The Revista de fontes is a bi-annual peer-reviewed journal that publishes documentary sources in the form of the transcription or the translation of documents to Portuguese, and the publication of research instruments, that will this way be available to academia in digital support. Revista de fontes also publishes authoral texts about documents types and sets, providing methodological subsidies for the exploration of these sources. Revista de fontes does not charge for submission or access.
publisher: Universidade Federal de São Paulo
language: pt-BR
publication name: Revista de fontes
issn: 2359-2648
copyright: Revista de Fontes está licenciada com uma Licença Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional.
items: Sources for a Social History of Property
items: Echos of the Past or the History of a Mutiny (1624)
items: What I Left Behind: The Will of Sabina da Cruz, "Whistlebower" of the Revolta dos Malês
items: Book of Records and Demarcation Invention: the Widow Ana and the Paraibuna Estate (18th and 19th Centuries)
items: Edition of Livro 1º do Provimento do Pão (AML-AH, Provimento do Pão, Livro 1º do Provimento do Pão, doc. 1–32)
items: “An imaginary Possession”: Property Rights and Social Hierarchies in the Captaincy of Pernambuco. The Case of the Former Slave Serafina (17th and 18th Centuries)
items: The Dynamics of Land Ownership in French Guiana under Portuguese Occupation (1809-1817)
items: Urban Property Tax (Décima Urbana) and Geoprocessing: Contributions to Urban Studies of 19th Century Rio de Janeiro
items: “Good Crumb”: the Confiscation of the Mercedariam Farms in Belém
items: Battles For Real Estate Property in the Construction of the Metropolis: Sources and Tools in the Research on Occupied Buildings in Downtown São Paulo
items: A Dispute Among “Settlers”: Territorial Conflicts in the Village of São Luiz do Paraitinga, Captaincy of São Paulo (1776-1798)
items: Central African Religions From the Perspective of a Capuchin: Rituals, Sacred Objects and Priesthoods in Istorica Descrizione (1687), by Giovanni Cavazzi
items: "Your Friend and Brother Barroso": A New Letter From the Baron of Amazonas
items: Transcription and Translation of Thomas Adesina Jacobson Ogunbiyi’s Through the Jungles Overland into Niger River (1902)
items: The "Brief History of Portugal of 1577": Context and Hypotheses of Authorship of a Manuscript Held by the Library of the Institut de France
items: Slave Trade in Fragments. The Commerce of Enslaved People in the Casa da Índia's Customs Departure Registers
items: “Nothing That is Human is Foreign to Me”: Considerations on Indigenous People by Antonio Pires da Silva Pontes Paes e Leme
items: "A Pioneer Work": Notes of Meetings Held During the Guerrilla Training of the VPR in the Vale do Ribeira (1970)
items: A Letter of Robert Cecil, Secretary of State of England, on the False Sebastian of Venice (1601?)
items: The ”Discourse of ‘Gêneros for commerce, from Maranhão and Pará,’’ by Duarte Ribeiro de Macedo, and the colonial exploitation in the Portuguese Amazon Rain Forest
items: The Holy Office and the Criminal Case Against Paula Molina (1776)
items: Sources for Biographies of Subalternised in the 20th Century
items: Listening the Silences, Rethinking History and Generating Knowledge about the Past of Black Women in Brazil: the Case of Rita Cesarino
items: Following a Life Tracks: a Reflection From the Trajectory of the Militant and Congresswoman Irma Passoni
items: Biographical Research Methods: A Case Study of a “Man of Color” from the Post-Abolition Era
items: Português Police Sources from the Kingdom of Italy for the Biographical Study of Italian Migrants Who Took Part in the Labor Movement in São Paulo, c.1870-c.1930
items: From Belém do Pará to Rio de Janeiro: the Trajectories of Militant Workers Through Digitised Newspapers (1910-1930)
items: From “Mono” to Benedicto: the Presence of Black Workers at Companhia Antarctica Paulista Between 1920 and 1930
items: Exchange of Letters Between Robert Simon And Pietro Maria Bardi About the Attribution Given to the Painting “The Portrait of a Florentine Fidalgo”, at MASP
items: Coast Guards and Traps: Critical Transcription of Three Regiments to Fight Dutch Privateers on the Coast of Pernambuco (1656 and 1661)

Sources for a Social History of Property
type: item
description: .
subject: Apresentação
  topic: section
subject: História social
  topic: keywords
subject: propriedade
  topic: keywords
subject: fontes
  topic: keywords
creator: Carmen Alveal
creator: Claudia Damasceno Fonseca
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carmen Alveal, Claudia Damasceno Fonseca https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-02-14
publication date: 2025-02-14
starting page: 1
ending page: 6

Echos of the Past or the History of a Mutiny (1624)
type: item
description: The National Archives in The Hague houses thousands of documents concerning Dutch Brazil, 1624-1654. Most of these documents are written in Dutch, which remains a barrier to accessing these sources. It was previously believed that all sources related to the occupation of Salvador from 1624 to 1625 had been discovered. However, in 2022, testimonies from military personnel who were investigated after returning to the Republic were found. To make these sources more accessible to Brazilian and Portuguese researchers and stakehouders, the translation of one of these testimonies is presented here. Keywords: Dutch Brazil, Mutiny, Salvador
subject: Translations
  topic: section
subject: Dutch Brazil
  topic: keywords
subject: Mutiny
  topic: keywords
subject: Salvador
  topic: keywords
creator: Lucia Furquim Werneck Xavier
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Lucia Furquim Werneck Xavier https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10
starting page: 125
ending page: 133
doi: 10.34024/fontes.2025.v12.18839

What I Left Behind: The Will of Sabina da Cruz, "Whistlebower" of the Revolta dos Malês
type: item
description: In the 19th-century slave society of Bahia, enslaved and freed africans sought to adapt to the impositions of the New World, and despite the adversities they faced, they succeeded in establishing social networks whose support was essential to their survival. The aim here is to transcribe the will of Sabina da Cruz, african, freedwoman and a "whistlebower" of the Revolta dos Malês — the most significant insurrection involving enslaved and freed people in 19th-century Bahia. Sabina's will, dated August 13, 1868, is notable for revealing the social network in which she was embedded. This document serves as a source of information for reconstructing her life trajectory and raises possibilities for understanding what motivated her actions.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: 19th-century Bahia
  topic: keywords
subject: testament
  topic: keywords
subject: social networks
  topic: keywords
creator: Erika Cristina Damião
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Erika Cristina Damião https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10
starting page: 55
ending page: 62
doi: 10.34024/fontes.2025.v12.19623

Book of Records and Demarcation Invention: the Widow Ana and the Paraibuna Estate (18th and 19th Centuries)
type: item
description: This article examines a book of records (livro de tombo) created to delimit the Paraibuna farm, in Rio de Janeiro, which belonged to an important potentate. The aim is to show the new possibilities for research that open from this documentary archive, dating from the end of the 18th century, for analyzing the invention of demarcation in colonial areas. I seek to unravel the efforts of the descendants - not all of them successful - to secure, bequeath or sell the lands occupied by the individuals and founders of the family. This text is motivated by recent discussions about the connection between the formation of large families, kinship networks and land conflicts in the Americas.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Livro de Tombo
  topic: keywords
subject: Property
  topic: keywords
subject: Demarcation Invention
  topic: keywords
creator: Márcia Motta
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Márcia Motta https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-02-14
publication date: 2025-02-14
starting page: 7
ending page: 25

Edition of Livro 1º do Provimento do Pão (AML-AH, Provimento do Pão, Livro 1º do Provimento do Pão, doc. 1–32)
type: item
description: The article presents the complete edition of the thirty-two documents that comprise Book I of the Bread Provision (AML-AH, Provimento do Pão, Livro 1º do provimento do pão, docs. 1 to 32). Composed of various documents issued by Portuguese kings and regents to the city of Lisbon between the years 1380 and 1489, the book records the measures adopted to ensure the supply of cereals. This edition contributes to the study of the history of food, provisioning, commercial, diplomatic, and religious relations, as well as forms of governance in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Portugal.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: Documentary edition
  topic: keywords
subject: Provision of bread
  topic: keywords
subject: Cereal suply
  topic: keywords
subject: Lisbon
  topic: keywords
creator: Thiago Henrique Alvarado
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Thiago Henrique Alvarado https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10
starting page: 1
ending page: 54
doi: 10.34024/fontes.2025.v12.19711

“An imaginary Possession”: Property Rights and Social Hierarchies in the Captaincy of Pernambuco. The Case of the Former Slave Serafina (17th and 18th Centuries)
type: item
description: This article analyzes a complex conflict over the ownership of a sugar mill in the captaincy of Pernambuco, between the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century. A captive of a “mestre de campo”, Serafina later married his master, Francisco Dias Ferreira. After her husband's death, she became the mistress of the sugar mill. However, the marriage was contested by the Ecclesiastical Court through a complaint by her mother-in-law, Clara das Neves, who was under pressure to pay a large debt to the Benedictines of the Monastery of São Bento da Paraíba, contracted by her husband during the Dutch domination. The dispute, analyzed through the action brought by the monastery for possession of the mill, published by the magazine of the Public Archive of the State of Pernambuco Jordão Emerenciano in 1946, makes it possible to question property rights in Portuguese-Brazilian society. It is understood that the complex social hierarchy of that society provided different access to the legal regime, especially in a context of dispute.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Capitaincy of Pernambuco
  topic: keywords
subject: conflict over possession of property
  topic: keywords
subject: social hierarchies
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana Lunara Morais
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Lunara Morais https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-02-14
publication date: 2025-02-14
starting page: 26
ending page: 48

The Dynamics of Land Ownership in French Guiana under Portuguese Occupation (1809-1817)
type: item
description: The aim of this work is to analyze the ownership of land in French Guiana between 1809 and 1817, when this territory was under Portuguese occupation. Using a set of documents by the land grant registry, the notary’s office and the civil registry of Guiana, we tried to understand both the formation of rural property and who owned it. The study of land’s question allows us to reflect on the free society of the time by evaluating the dynamics of land deals carried out by white and non-white people.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Guiana Francesa; sociedade; posse da terra
  topic: keywords
creator: Ivete Machado de Miranda Pereira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ivete Machado de Miranda Pereira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-02-14
publication date: 2025-02-14
starting page: 75
ending page: 99

Urban Property Tax (Décima Urbana) and Geoprocessing: Contributions to Urban Studies of 19th Century Rio de Janeiro
type: item
description: The 19th century in Rio de Janeiro was marked by significant urban transformations. In this scenario, the urban property tax played a central role in urban organization, delimiting areas and encouraging the occupation of new ones. The Décima Urbana documentation, available at the Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, provides information on the location, value and profile of the owners and residents of the properties considered to be within the urban limits. Integrating the source into historical cartographies using geoprocessing allows for investigations focused on socio-economic aspects and the social history of property in the city.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Rio de Janeiro
  topic: keywords
subject: Geoprocessing
  topic: keywords
subject: Décima Urbana
  topic: keywords
creator: Gustavo Nascimento Rocha Dias
creator: Letícia Bedendo Campanha Pires
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Gustavo Nascimento Rocha Dias, Letícia Bedendo Campanha Pires https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-02-14
publication date: 2025-02-14
starting page: 100
ending page: 118

“Good Crumb”: the Confiscation of the Mercedariam Farms in Belém
type: item
description: In 1850, Brazil passed the Euzébio de Queirós Law, which banned the trafficking of enslaved Africans. In 1864, Brazil was going through a serious economic banking crisis. Seeking to contribute to the National Treasury, Councillor Doctor Zacharias de Góes e Vasconcellos, then Minister of Finance, understood that the assets of the extinct Mercedarian religious could serve as a “good crumb”. When these religious were expelled, their cattle ranches in Grão-Pará totaled more than 40,000 head of cattle. After 60 years, they had been reduced, by bad management, to just over 25 thousand. What could be done to avoid this waste? How could these assets be used to deal with the economic difficulties of the 1864s? Góes de Vasconcellos had his own ideas and he sets them out in this letter.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: Mercedariam
  topic: keywords
subject: expulsion
  topic: keywords
subject: farms
  topic: keywords
creator: Fernando Henrique Marques Brito
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fernando Henrique Marques Brito https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10
starting page: 71
ending page: 80
doi: 10.34024/fontes.2025.v12.19504

Battles For Real Estate Property in the Construction of the Metropolis: Sources and Tools in the Research on Occupied Buildings in Downtown São Paulo
type: item
description: This article presents theoretical and methodological reflections that emerged from the research on the history of vertical buildings occupied by housing movements in downtown São Paulo. Assuming that the moments of construction, abandonment, and occupation are extremely significant markers of this history, various sources and tools were mobilized in the study. Geoprocessing, historical cartography, and primary sources were used to understand the construction of the buildings. The uses of the buildings, before their emptying, were known by relating the primary sources to newspaper records, especially commercial advertisements. The phenomenon of abandonment was the most difficult to document, as the removal of activities from a building and its closure are not usually reported in the media and are not recorded in processes found in municipal archives. Information from bibliographies and digital media was used to understand the dates, context, and popular organizations involved in the occupation of the buildings by housing movements. This article focuses on the debate about continuities and ruptures in the use of urban land as a tool for capitalist accumulation and urban dynamics in downtown São Paulo at the beginning of
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Historical cartography
  topic: keywords
subject: Occupied buildings
  topic: keywords
subject: Downtown São Paulo
  topic: keywords
creator: Vitor Mendes Monteiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vitor Mendes Monteiro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-02-14
publication date: 2025-02-14
starting page: 119
ending page: 143

A Dispute Among “Settlers”: Territorial Conflicts in the Village of São Luiz do Paraitinga, Captaincy of São Paulo (1776-1798)
type: item
description: This article aims to analyze a land conflict that occurred in the village of São Luiz do Paraitinga between the 1770s and 1790s, in the northern region of the Captaincy of São Paulo, as observed in a set of requests available at the Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo. We sought to identify the connections and relationships established between the town and its residents with the govern of the captaincy of São Paulo and the Portuguese Empire. From a macro to micro analysis, we consider the tensions of the historical process, especially the policies to encourage settlement in the 18th century, as well as the strategies and agencies of the arguments presented.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: sesmaria
  topic: keywords
subject: possession
  topic: keywords
subject: São Luiz do Paraitinga
  topic: keywords
creator: Laís Charleaux
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Laís Charleaux https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-02-14
publication date: 2025-02-14
starting page: 49
ending page: 74

Central African Religions From the Perspective of a Capuchin: Rituals, Sacred Objects and Priesthoods in Istorica Descrizione (1687), by Giovanni Cavazzi
type: item
description: The document that we now translate and transcribe consists of a description of Central African religions in the mid-17th century, made by the Italian Capuchin missionary Giovanni António Cavazzi da Montecúccolo. We reproduce in full the subtitles “Da Idolatria” and “Dos Sacerdócios”, from the First Book of Istorica Descrizione De' Tre' Regni Congo, Matamba, et Angola, a work originally published in Italian in 1687. The aforementioned sections of this work are of great interest to scholars of African religions, as practiced in the Congo-Angolan region during the 17th century, but also those who dedicate themselves to the analysis of the so-called “calundus” practiced in colonial Brazil.
subject: Translations
  topic: section
subject: Giovanni Cavazzi
  topic: keywords
subject: Central-african religions
  topic: keywords
subject: 17th Century
  topic: keywords
creator: Daniel Precioso
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Daniel Precioso https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10
starting page: 134
ending page: 164
doi: 10.34024/fontes.2025.v12.16466

"Your Friend and Brother Barroso": A New Letter From the Baron of Amazonas
type: item
description: The document now transcribed is a letter from Francisco Manoel Barroso da Silva - the later Baron of Amazonas -, dating from 9 May 1865, one month and two days ahead of the Naval Battle of Riachuelo. The distintive character of such document is due both to the fact that it has been discovered inadvertently therefore lacking any sort of cataloguing, as well as to the information it brigs regarding the difficulties and strategies faced and crafted by admiral Barosso respectively. Furthermore it allows one to get to know the sort of nourishment demanded by the troops as well as to realise the category "barbarianism" as employed to describe the paraguayans who were being zoomophised as part of a discourse whose goal was to legitimise the war.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: Barroso
  topic: keywords
subject: Paraguayan War
  topic: keywords
subject: Imperial Brazilian Navy
  topic: keywords
creator: Pedro Henrique de Souza Ribeiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pedro Henrique de Souza Ribeiro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10
starting page: 63
ending page: 70
doi: 10.34024/fontes.2025.v12.16537

Transcription and Translation of Thomas Adesina Jacobson Ogunbiyi’s Through the Jungles Overland into Niger River (1902)
type: item
description: Missionary action in West Africa during the colonial period has been the subject of investigation and scrutiny in recent African/Africanist historiography, particularly aiming to problematize the forms of intercultural contact, and notably, the role of African intermediaries in processes of conversion and Christian education. Concerning the Niger River region (present-day Nigeria), figures such as Reverend Thomas Adesina Jacobson Ogunbiyi, in the service of the Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.), left significant documentation regarding the "contact zones" (an expression of M.L. Pratt) resulting from colonialism, mainly through travel accounts.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: West Africa
  topic: keywords
subject: Missionaries
  topic: keywords
subject: Travels' narratives
  topic: keywords
creator: Evander Ruthieri da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Evander Ruthieri da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: 129
ending page: 156

The "Brief History of Portugal of 1577": Context and Hypotheses of Authorship of a Manuscript Held by the Library of the Institut de France
type: item
description: The library of the Institut de France (an institution belonging to the French Academy) holds a manuscript titled "Historia brevissima delli Re di Portogallo d'un certo autore. Anno 1577". The primary aim of this article is to publish the first transcription of this document in Italian, accompanied by a Portuguese translation, as well as to discuss its main contents. A brief introductory study discusses the possible authorship, the reasons for writing the writing of this manuscript, the sources used by the author and the reasons why the it is important. It is argued that the manuscript in question is part of a larger topic that still needs further study: the circulation of manuscript histories of Portugal in 16th century Europe.
subject: Translations
  topic: section
subject: História de Portugal;
  topic: keywords
creator: Nuno Vila-Santa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Nuno Vila-Santa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10
starting page: 81
ending page: 124
doi: 10.34024/fontes.2025.v12.16397

Slave Trade in Fragments. The Commerce of Enslaved People in the Casa da Índia's Customs Departure Registers
type: item
description: This text presents the data from the outbound records of the Casa da Índia (Lisbon customs), which reveal the trade of enslaved individuals leaving Portugal for various overseas Portuguese territories. The material allows us to assess Portugal's role, mainly Lisbon, as a place for the commercialization of enslaved people overseas.
subject: Instrumentos de Pesquisa
  topic: section
subject: Portugal
  topic: keywords
subject: Slave trade
  topic: keywords
subject: Customs
  topic: keywords
subject: Eighteenth century
  topic: keywords
creator: Rafael Chambouleyron
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Rafael Chambouleyron https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-07-11
publication date: 2024-07-11
starting page: 1
ending page: 15

“Nothing That is Human is Foreign to Me”: Considerations on Indigenous People by Antonio Pires da Silva Pontes Paes e Leme
type: item
description: The transcribed document contains a lecture by the geographer Antônio Pires da Silva Pontes at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Lisbon in 1792. As a scientist and colonial ruler, Silva Pontes presented several criticisms of indigenous peoples' governance in Portuguese America. In addition, he exposed essential concepts about human nature, the Portuguese nation, science, and, above all, the good government of American Indians.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: Antonio Pires da Silva Pontes
  topic: keywords
subject: Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon
  topic: keywords
subject: Indigenous Peoples
  topic: keywords
creator: Adriana Pereira Campos
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Adriana Pereira Campos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: 109
ending page: 128

"A Pioneer Work": Notes of Meetings Held During the Guerrilla Training of the VPR in the Vale do Ribeira (1970)
type: item
description: The presented document is the "Jaraguá Notebook," which contains records of meetings held by militants of the Popular Revolutionary Vanguard between March 27 and April 3 of the same year, during guerrilla training in the Vale do Ribeira. It was seized by security and repression agencies from a former VPR militant and attached to a police inquiry, which later became a case against other members of the group. This is the only record made during the training, found to this day.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: rural guerrilla
  topic: keywords
subject: Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária
  topic: keywords
subject: civil-military dictatorship
  topic: keywords
creator: Juliana Marques do Nascimento
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Juliana Marques do Nascimento https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: 157
ending page: 211

A Letter of Robert Cecil, Secretary of State of England, on the False Sebastian of Venice (1601?)
type: item
description: This paper presents a letter from Robert Cecil, an English courtier and aristocrat who served as Secretary of State, to Piero Pellegrini, Secretary of the Council of Ten of the Venetian Republic. Cecil questions the veracity of the news about Sebastian of Venice, an impostor who was said to have returned as King Sebastian of Portugal after his 'disappearance' at the Battle of Ksar El-Kibir in 1578. The letter is known to exist in two copies, one in English and one in Italian, both of which have been fully transcribed in semi-diplomatic editions for the first time. Additionally, this paper aims to verify the letter’s date.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: Sebastianismo
  topic: keywords
subject: Robert Cecil
  topic: keywords
subject: Inglaterra
  topic: keywords
creator: Luís Filipe Silvério Lima
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Luís Filipe Silvério Lima https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: 47
ending page: 57

The ”Discourse of ‘Gêneros for commerce, from Maranhão and Pará,’’ by Duarte Ribeiro de Macedo, and the colonial exploitation in the Portuguese Amazon Rain Forest
type: item
description: Written by Duarte Ribeiro de Macedo, a Portuguese diplomat, in a context of economic dispute, this document introduces various of the native and exotic “gêneros” that were collected and cultivated in the State of Maranhão and Grão-Pará, in the 17th century. In this document, Macedo talks about native and exogenous plants, detailing known uses, economic advantages, and how some of them were exploited by the colonizers of the territory.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: Amazon
  topic: keywords
subject: Indigenous History
  topic: keywords
subject: Drogas do sertão
  topic: keywords
subject: Duarte Ribeiro de Macedo
  topic: keywords
creator: Talles Manoel da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Talles Manoel da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: 58
ending page: 68

The Holy Office and the Criminal Case Against Paula Molina (1776)
type: item
description: In the city of Lima, during the second half of the XVIII century, the zamba Paulina Molina, alias Pan y Queso, was accused by the Court of the Holy Office for superstitious, deceitful, and boastful. Our character was resident of Callao Port and had established a network of clients that requested her spiritual work as a way to hold beloved people. These women, who were Afrodescendant, approached Paula either on recommendation or because they knew her from long time ago, which makes us assume that there was an interaction between the common individuals and spiritual wisdom that was against Christianity.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: Holy Office of the Inquisition
  topic: keywords
subject: Paula Molina
  topic: keywords
subject: Witchcraft
  topic: keywords
creator: Renato Gomes Di Iorio
creator: Luiz Felipe Rodrigues Pinheiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Renato Gomes Di Iorio, LUIZ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: 69
ending page: 94

Sources for Biographies of Subalternised in the 20th Century
type: item
description: .
subject: Apresentação
  topic: section
subject: Biography
  topic: keywords
subject: Subalterised
  topic: keywords
subject: Historiography
  topic: keywords
creator: Antonio Liberac Cardoso Simões Pires
creator: Caio Giulliano Paião
creator: Rosy de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Antonio Liberac Cardoso Simões Pires, Caio Giulliano Paião, Rosy de Oliveria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-01-16
publication date: 2024-01-16
starting page: 1
ending page: 8

Listening the Silences, Rethinking History and Generating Knowledge about the Past of Black Women in Brazil: the Case of Rita Cesarino
type: item
description: In this article I analyze trends in studies on Black women in Brazilian historiography. I compare aspects of this landscape with the research agenda outlined by Black intellectuals in Brazil and the United States, which has been incorporated into historiography. Additionally, I examine issues that have been sidelined in historiographical approaches and have given rise to stereotypes about Black women. Guided by this discussion, I demonstrate how these perceptions have influenced the production of research on black women. I also present the theoretical and methodological resources that I employed in conducting a study on three generations of women from the Cesarino family, addressing issues such as social mobility, racial, gender, and class inequalities in the 19th century.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: história das mulheres negras
  topic: keywords
subject: intelectuais negras
  topic: keywords
subject: história do Brasil
  topic: keywords
creator: Taina Silva Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Taina Silva Santos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-01-15
publication date: 2024-01-15
starting page: 107
ending page: 130

Following a Life Tracks: a Reflection From the Trajectory of the Militant and Congresswoman Irma Passoni
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description: Irma Passoni has worked like congresswoman and was a Brazilian Cost of Living Movement (Movimento do Custo de Vida) (MCV) founder in 1973. When we researched about her life, we had access to documents that helped us to thinking about her carreer and the São Paulo periferic movements history, in the 70s and 80s. In this sense, this article has the aim to think about documents used to analyse Irma Passoni’s life and its challenges and potentialities. By the way, we should to talk about the ways to colect this documents with the objective to help researches that want to work with similar lifes.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Life Trajectories
  topic: keywords
subject: Women
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Movements
  topic: keywords
creator: Roger Camacho Barrero Junior
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Roger Camacho Barrero Junior https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-01-15
publication date: 2024-01-15
starting page: 85
ending page: 106

Biographical Research Methods: A Case Study of a “Man of Color” from the Post-Abolition Era
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description: This article uses the experience of researching the life of a “man of color” – who was born after the free womb law (1871) and lived into the mid-twentieth century – to demonstrate how historians can combine primary sources with methodologies to build biographies. The paper is divided into four sections: it first illustrates the importance of understanding Black individuals from that era as part of a subaltern category. In the second part, it outlines strategies that can enable researchers to extract novel meaning from primary sources, such as the Black press in São Paulo, that have already seen extensive use. It then provides practical examples of how other textual and visual documents unveil the concealed presence of individuals of color in the past. After considering the field of historical biography’s ongoing debates, it concludes that studies employing microhistorical methods have the distinct capacity to center agency in ways that complement macro-historical interpretations.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: biography
  topic: keywords
subject: man of color
  topic: keywords
subject: Black press
  topic: keywords
creator: Livia Tiede
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Livia Tiede https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-01-15
publication date: 2024-01-15
starting page: 9
ending page: 25

Português Police Sources from the Kingdom of Italy for the Biographical Study of Italian Migrants Who Took Part in the Labor Movement in São Paulo, c.1870-c.1930
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description: Starting from a theoretical and historiographical part dedicated to the progressive insertion of micro-historical methodology and biographical studies so as to understand the individual agency of workers involved in the mobilizations and organizations of the labor movement, the article presents a methodological analysis of Italian police sources preserved in the National Archive of the Italian State (Archivio Centrale dello Stato) and the State Archive of Rome (Archivio di Stato di Roma), both based in the Italian capital. These sources, as also evidenced by the examples of biographical trajectories presented in the text, provide an important, and often unique, set of information for the biographies of the many Italian workers who worked in the labor movement in the state of São Paulo in part of their lives.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Biographies
  topic: keywords
subject: Labour movement
  topic: keywords
subject: Italian migration
  topic: keywords
creator: Luigi Biondi
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Luigi Biondi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-01-15
publication date: 2024-01-15
starting page: 26
ending page: 60

From Belém do Pará to Rio de Janeiro: the Trajectories of Militant Workers Through Digitised Newspapers (1910-1930)
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description: This article intends to make some presentations – very brief, due to space limitations – of the trajectories of some worker activists who worked in Brazil throughout the 1910s and 1920s. – and mainly – of the workers' newspapers, were of fundamental importance, which made another underlying objective of this text to be to discuss the use of digitized copies of the newspapers made available in online collections as historical sources for the reconstitution of the trajectory of these subjects.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Labor movement
  topic: keywords
subject: individual trajectories
  topic: keywords
subject: working press
  topic: keywords
creator: Marcos Lucas Abreu Braga
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Marcos Lucas Abreu Braga https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-01-15
publication date: 2024-01-15
starting page: 131
ending page: 148

From “Mono” to Benedicto: the Presence of Black Workers at Companhia Antarctica Paulista Between 1920 and 1930
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description: This article is part of the research carried out about the presence of black workers in the industry of São Paulo in the post-abolition period through the analysis of hiring forms of Companhia Antarctica Paulista between 1920 and 1930. This documentation opens up possibilities for numerous researches, including the beginning of writing a biography of a black worker. The relationship between a photograph and a functional file was able to transform a “monkey” into a citizen.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: biography
  topic: keywords
subject: black peoples
  topic: keywords
subject: Benedicto
  topic: keywords
creator: Michele Silva Joaquim
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Michele Silva Joaquim https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-01-15
publication date: 2024-01-15
starting page: 61
ending page: 84

Exchange of Letters Between Robert Simon And Pietro Maria Bardi About the Attribution Given to the Painting “The Portrait of a Florentine Fidalgo”, at MASP
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description: The article brings the transcription of four letters exchanged between Robert Simon, a researcher at the Department of European Works at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States, and Pietro Maria Bardi, one of the founders and then director of the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP) that changed the attribution given to one of the works in the institution's collection. This is the painting "The Portrait of a Florentine Nobleman (Piero de Medici?)", today attributed to Alessandro Allori and his studio, but which in the past was given as a work by Agnolo Bronzino and Francesco Salviati. All are Italian painters of the mannerist school.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: Masp
  topic: keywords
subject: Art Story
  topic: keywords
subject: Alessandro Allori
  topic: keywords
creator: Janaína Angélica Simões
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Janaína Angélica Simões https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-07-23
publication date: 2023-07-23
starting page: 41
ending page: 50

Coast Guards and Traps: Critical Transcription of Three Regiments to Fight Dutch Privateers on the Coast of Pernambuco (1656 and 1661)
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description: The handwritten copies of naval expedition regiments used to combat Dutch privateers are found in the Conde dos Arcos Collection at the Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra. These documents were created by Pernambuco governors delegating power to commanders leading these expeditions. They offer insight into the context of disputes following Dutch capitulation in 1654, and standardize two types of naval expeditions: coast guards and traps. Critical transcriptions accompany an initial presentation outlining these expeditions' contexts, with explanatory notes referencing other sources and events mentioned therein. Ultimately, analyzing these regiments provides key insights into both Pernambuco's coastal defence situation as well as effective strategies employed against Dutch Privateers.
subject: Documentos
  topic: section
subject: Regiments
  topic: keywords
subject: Dutch privateering
  topic: keywords
subject: Naval Expeditions
  topic: keywords
creator: Hugo André Flores Fernandes Araújo
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Hugo André Flores Fernandes Araújo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: 95
ending page: 108