📅 5 Desèmber 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...
📅 30 Ougùstùs 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...
📅 1 Novèmber 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...
📅 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...
📅 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...
