Historical Organization
Clube do Cupim
Clube do Cupim
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Organization Timeline
Clube do Cupim records enslaved people financing escape passages
📅 5 December 1884A meeting record cited by historians lists 96$000 réis paid for twelve passage fares. Club correspondence used coded terms such as “Englishmen” for enslaved people escaping toward Ceará. This...
Ave Libertas leads a public anniversary celebration and freedom campaign
📅 25 March 1885To mark one year since Ceará abolished slavery, Ave Libertas organized a public celebration in Recife with a civic procession, music, religious ceremony, and speeches. At the theater, several...
A planned escape uses cargo as cover for a passage north
đź“… 30 August 1885Minutes of the Clube do Cupim record planning an escape operation aboard a vessel carrying 250 sacks of manioc flour toward Macau, Rio Grande do Norte. The cargo could help conceal people from...
Clube do Cupim formally dissolves under pressure
📅 1 November 1885The group’s last recorded session dissolved the Clube do Cupim amid persecution and concern over exposure. Historians caution that the dissolution may have been a protective public gesture: records...
A Cupim list traces twenty-seven escapees from thirteen plantations
đź“… 4 April 1887A dated list records twenty-seven enslaved people fleeing from thirteen sugar estates across at least eight Pernambuco localities. It lists twenty men and seven women, aged fifteen to fifty-six, and...
Clube do Cupim helps embark 119 people fleeing enslavement
đź“… 23 April 1888A later account cited in scholarship describes a major operation in Recife in which 119 enslaved people were embarked for escape toward the North. Their movement followed years of fugitives, free...