On 13 December 1838, a group of men attacked the jail at Vila da Manga in Maranhão, an event often used to date the start of the Balaiada. The wider revolt drew in poor rural people, Black...
A surviving deposition dated 18 July 1867 records the questioning of Vicente, an enslaved man, in the aftermath of the Viana uprising in Maranhão. The testimony is mediated by officials: the...
