A letter dated 10 July 1867, associated with insurgents in Viana, Maranhão, states that they were “in the field” to address the freedom of enslaved people. The document gives a rare glimpse of...
A surviving deposition dated 18 July 1867 records the questioning of Vicente, an enslaved man, in the aftermath of the Viana uprising in MaranhĂŁo. The testimony is mediated by officials: the...