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 document reflects a coercive interrogation and cannot be treated as an unfiltered account. Read alongside the insurgents’ letter of 10 July, it shows both Black political action and the state’s effort to investigate, contain, and punish it. Keeping these records together makes visible the unequal archive through which rebellion is remembered.
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How should Vicente’s 1867 deposition be read?
The deposition survives through official questioning and must be read critically.
Vicente’s July 1867 deposition is an unmediated, voluntary autobiography.
It is an official interrogation record and must be read as coercively mediated.