Villa from Óbidos: "Para ella tienen que venir colonos protugueses". (Pará 1850-1860)

Authors

  • Eliana Ramos Ferreira

Keywords:

Settling, Military colonies, Free work, Portuguese colonists, Imperial Pará

Abstract

The formal extinguishing of the slave traffic, in 1850, put in the order the problem of the substitution of the enslaved man power in the organization of the work in Brazil. One of the ways defended by significant parcel of the Imperial State it was to stimulate settling projects, one of these projects was the creation of Military Villages to receive the colonists European. The present work intends to reflect on the experience of Portuguese colonists in the Military Village of Óbidos in the province of imperial Pará.

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