Ocupação, colonização e relações de trabalho em Ourém do Grão-Pará (1751-1798)

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the process of occupation, colonization and labor relations developed in the region of Ourém in the State of Grão-Pará between 1751 and 1798, here understood as the eastern frontier of Grão-Pará. Its territory was of fundamental importance for the political, economic and social relations developed between the captaincies of Grão-Pará and Maranhão. In order to achieve this pretension, we initially sought to understand the motivations that led to the founding of the town of Ourém, which, like so many others, was created from the policies developed by the Marquis of Pombal for the Amazon. As they were seeking to guarantee the possession of the lands of Portugal that for this purpose promoted the concession of Sesmarias, with that it aimed to populate their territory, given that in that period there was an intense dispute, mainly with Spain, by the lands of the Portuguese extreme north. In this context, the idea of territoriality understood as the actions of the subjects is fundamental, this notion is adequate to the measures adopted by Portugal from the second half of the eighteenth century, because they played a decisive role in promoting the settlement of the Grand- For. It is noteworthy that it was from these actions that the Amazonian territory was conceived. Based on this principle, the town of Ourém is the product of territoriality. In his region, several relations between different subjects were processed, by virtue of which, we conceived as a place of frontier, not in the sense of limit, but in the understanding of space of occupation and encounter, where black enslaved, Indians and whites made the most varied relations, based on work.