Negros da terra e/ou negros da Guiné: Trabalho, resistência e repressão no Grão-Pará no período do Diretório

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the labor world in the Colonial Grão Pará during the Pombaline period, when Indians showed tenacious resistance to time and work discipline. Such discipline was imposed in the colonization process, associated with high rates of mortality, due to epidemics, resulting in the enhancement of the African slave trade to the captaincy in the 18th century, during the control of the Grão Pará and Maranhão General Trading Company. The Indians' and slaves' colonial experience, which encompassed excessive exploitation and oppression, led these populations to form an identity of interests, and to develop forms of collective resistance, which, thus, justified for a more severe repression by colonial authorities.