Ações colonizadoras em descompasso: legislação, propaganda e atuação de colonos estrangeiros e nacionais nos últimos anos do império e início da república no Pará

Abstract

The present study seeks to reflect the laws operate with the goal of creating colonial cores and, consequently, the introduction of domestic and foreign settlers in the Bragantina region, Northeastern Pará, between the years of 1886 and 1902. We seek to analyze not only the provincial authorities and State claims behind these frameworks, but also the reactions of the colonists on the agricultural front of such legislation. While these public agents aimed to have a control over those rural areas, its occupants and the own agricultural production, the immigrants sought the establishment and extension of rights provided for not only the laws but also in advertisements carried out in Europe with the purpose of attracting immigrants. Within this universe of frameworks, we still perceive the differences between the programs of colonization thought between the end of the imperial period and the first years of the Republic, Governments of Lauro Sodré, José Paes de Carvalho and Augusto Montenegro.