"Não é terra de préstimo e nunca foi povoada": a territorialização dos sertões do Cabo de São Roque
This research investigates the process of territorial appropriation, carried out by the Portuguese Crown, on the north coast of the Rio Grande Captaincy, between 1500 and 1719. In order to do it, we question the occupation of this space, since the historiography production on Rio Grande Captaincy...
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Resumo: | This research investigates the process of territorial appropriation, carried out by the
Portuguese Crown, on the north coast of the Rio Grande Captaincy, between 1500 and
1719. In order to do it, we question the occupation of this space, since the historiography
production on Rio Grande Captaincy has shown a huge gap about this coastal region, as
if that space was an invisible part of the territory. This research appropriates Antonio
Robert de Moraes's concept of “territory”, in which the colonization process used military
services and all juridical-administrative structure to expand colonial lands.
Methodologically, it uses an analysis of the cartographic and written documents of the
period and also investigates, through the analysis of the subjects' trajectory, guided by the
studies of João Fragoso and Cristina Mazzeo Vivó, the life trajectories of the sesmeiros
who acquired land in the sertões of Porto do Touro. This analysis has identified some
evidence of contact between Potiguara natives and French privateers in Pititinga Cove
and near Cabo de São Roque in the 16th century, it has also identified the sesmeiro
Domingos de Carvalho da Silva as one of the important figures in this process of
appropriation of the hinterlands of Cabo de São Roque. In conclusion, the examination of
these sources has shown that the crossing of different archival sources, especially
cartographic, brings rewarding results to the work of the historian interested in
investigating the occupation of colonial spaces and the relations between the different
levels of Portuguese administration overseas. |
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