đź“… 5 December 1884
A 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...
đź“… 30 Augustus 1885
Minutes 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...
đź“… 1 November 1885
The 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...
đź“… 4 April 1887
A 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...
đź“… 23 April 1888
A 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...
