The seizing of the Society of Jesus’ frigate, Rio de Janeiro, 1759

Authors

  • Marcia Amantino Universidade Salgado de Oliveira UNIVERSO

Abstract

The text aims to demonstrate the mechanisms used by the colonial authorities of Rio de Janeiro to confiscate the goods belonging to the frigate of the priests of the Society of Jesus that anchored at the city’s port in December 1759 without its crew knowing that the order of deportation of these religious, decreed by King Joseph I in September of that year, was already being executed. Thus, all things and persons that were in the boat entered the inventory made by judge Agostinho Felix dos Santos Capello. Through this document of the frigate’ confiscation it is possible to have a notion of the trade and the movement of goods and people that took place on the Brazilian coast in the middle of the 18th century having the privilege of not being subject to inspections and the payment of fees because they were in a vessel of the Society of Jesus. It is also possible to identify the shipment of products that came from different parts of the Portuguese empire, mainly from India, and circulated among the Jesuit schools in Portuguese America.

Keywords: frigate, circulation, Society of Jesus.

Author Biography

Marcia Amantino, Universidade Salgado de Oliveira UNIVERSO

Possui graduação em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (1992), mestrado (1996) e doutorado (2001) em História Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e pós-doutoramento pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2009-2010) e pela Universidade de Évora, Portugal (2012). É professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Salgado de Oliveira. Lidera o Grupo de Pesquisa do CNPq intitulado Sociedades escravistas nas Américas. É co-coordenadora da Rede de Grupos de Pesquisa Escravidão e mestiçagens" e do Centro de Estudos da presença africana no Mundo Moderno, ambos liderados pelo prof. Eduardo França Paiva (UFMG). É membro pesquisador também do Grupo de Pesquisa do CNPq "Jesuítas nas Américas", liderado pela prof. Maria Cristina Bohn Martins (UNISINOS) e do Grupo de Pesquisa Escravidão e mestiçagens: escravidão, comércio e trânsitos culturais nos sertões da Bahia e de Minas Gerais, século XVIII, liderado por Isnara Pereira Ivo (UNESB). Tem experiência na área de História, com ênfase em História do Brasil Colônia. Atua principalmente nos seguintes temas: Companhia de Jesus, cultura, escravidão negra e indígena, Rio de Janeiro e Minas Gerais.

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Published

2018-11-23

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 3 (2018): September/October

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