Usos da fronteira: terras, contrabando e relações sociais no Turiaçu (Pará - Maranhão, 1790-1852)

Abstract

This thesis discusses the occupation of the border between Pará and Maranhão from 1790 to 1852. More specifically analyzes the meetings and clashes between colonizers and the various residents around there were or who arrived in the region in the period. To be detached, the firstly, the onslaughts of portuguese colonial government in order to make the region colonized by people "useful" to the royal interests. In the process, opened up roads, lifted up towns and villagesa, besides donate land by date letter of allotment for cattle and agriculture production. However, parallel to the abundance and potential riches of the earth, always came to search for the required "control" over local populations. This process "colonizer" win force from Francisco de Souza Coutinho administration in Pará, but also received, in this time, a lot of guys not "desired". Were new villagers and transferred indigenous, black africans, and many poor whites and mestizos men, some being banished, other military servers and more fugitives. This place - enormous ethnic and cultural diversity center - became a melting pot of gunpowder into two big uprisings: the first in 1824, in the context of the independence struggles and the other in 1835, with the Cabanagem. The approach of this thesis ends in early 1850, not because the people no more went up, but because finally the dispute of imperial administration decides to spend the region to Maranhão protection and dispute focuses gained new contours and dimensions that would extrapolate this investigation.