1 “In the presidio, the bandit became known as a good person, a worker. His manioc fields were always the most productive and he was never jailed, never gave the prison administrators trouble.” José Lins, do Rego, A Usina, 4 ed. (Rio: José Olympio, 1956 [1936]), pp. 17–18.Google Scholar

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4 The slave convict survey referred to throughout this article is Gracindo de Gusmào Lobo, Capitão Antonio, “Relação nominal de escravos sentenciados,” Fernando de Noronha, 27 Oct. 1881,Google Scholar Arquivo Público de Pernambuco Jordão Emerenciano (hereafter APPJE), Livro FN-21, no folha (f.) nos [hereafter Gusmào Lobo, “Relação” APPJE]. Other sources provide information on convicts that I coded in a data base. Two books of inmate guias (official court letters that identified prisoners, their crimes, and sentences) record data on inmates in the 1830s and 1850s, Livro de guias, Serie Justiça, Código do Fundo ND, Seção de Guarda Codes, Fernando de Noronha, 1829–1837, Arquivo Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (hereafter ANR), livro IIJ 7 91, and Ibid., 1853–1861, livro IIJ 7 2 [hereafter Livro de guias, 1829–1837, and Livro de guias, 1853–1861], I surveyed the entire book of guias for the 1830s and one in five from the 1850s. Two matriculation books recorded data on convicts from the 1860s through the 1890s, Livro da matricula geral dos sentenciados com declaração de todas as circum-stancias desde sua chegada a este presidio, e sua retirada, conforme determina o regulamento mandado executar pelo decreto no. 3.403 de 11 de Fevereiro de 1865, Fernando de Noronha, ANR, Seção de Justiça, livro IIJ 7 94. Livro da matricula geral… mandado executar pelo decreto no. 9.356 de 10 de Janeiro de 1885, Fernando de Noronha, ANR, Seção de Justiça, livro IIJ 7 6 [hereafter Livro de matricula, 1865, and Livro de matricula, 1885]. Matriculation books yielded data on 1,092 prisoners. I also used a detailed overview of the island’s population: “Relatório do Director Joaquim de Gusmão Coelho ao Cidadào Desembargador José Antonio Correia da Silva, Governador do Estado de Pernambuco,” Fernando de Noronha, 1 Jan. 1891, APPJE, livro FN-30, f. 2-10 [hereafter “Relatório… de Gusmão Coelho,” 1891, APPJE].

5 Here I borrow language from Barickmas’n , B.J. “Reading the 1835 Parish Censuses from Bahia: Citizenship, Kinship, Slavery, and Household in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” The Americas 59:3 (2003), pp. 287–323.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Barickman follows paths blazed in the qualitative readings of Latin American censuses by Kuznesof, Elizabeth Anne, “Ethnic and Gender Influences on “Spanish” Creole Society in Colonial Spanish America,” Colonial Latin American Review 4:1 (1995), pp. 153–201 CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Nazzari, Muriel, “Vanishing Indians: The Social Construction of Race in Colonial São Paulo,” The Americas 57:4 (2001), pp. 487–524.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

6 There is no study of lynching in Brazil perhaps due to its infrequency and the difficulty of finding adequate sources. The most promising way to research lynching would likely be through periodicals, but the lack of indexation makes it a daunting task. A penal expert noted two slave lynchings in Leopoldina, Minas Gérais in 1876 and Itu, Sao Paulo in 1879. de Padua Fluery, Conselheiro André Augusto, Parecer sobre o presidio de Fernando de Noronha (Rio: Imprensa Nacional, 1880), p. 15;Google Scholar The abolitionist José de Patricínio noted that slave lynchings occurred in Itu, Rio Bonito, Resende, Rio do Peixe, Madalena, and Rio de Janeiro to prevent Pedro II from commuting their sentences. Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, 29 Apr. 1889. The U.S. Ex-Consul General of Brazil C.C. Andrews notes rising slave criminality and planter violence to counter it in the 1880s in Brazil: Its Conditions and Prospects (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889), pp. 316–317; Ricardo Alexandre Ferreira offers rare data on slave suspects denounced in Franca, São Paulo where in more than 100 cases from 1830-1888 only 18 percent stood trial. Most cases never went to trial either because the defendant died or escaped, the master illegally sold the slave to a distant market, or the court absolved the defendant. In 66 cases, Ferreira found that 45. 5 percent of slave defendant’s were never formally processed, 21.2 percent were named as defendants but never prosecuted, and in 25.5 percent of the cases, they were absolved. Only 7.6 percent were tried and condemned. Ferreira, Senhores de poucos escravos, pp. 92–96. The low conviction rates were common to the Brazilian jury system. Flory, Thomas, Judge and Jury in Imperial Brazil 1808–1871 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981).CrossRefGoogle Scholar Recent studies indicate that slave lynchings were more common in the antebellum United States than previously supposed. Fitzhugh Brundage, William, Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), p. 98.Google Scholar

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8 For a sense of how authorities regulated the flogging of slaves in Rio de Janeiro, see Série Justiça, Fundo ND, Seção de Guarda Codes, Rio, 1857–1858, ANR, livro IVJ 7 2. The entries note slaves who were jailed and include offenses, number of lashes applied, as well as expenses for whippings, food, and medicine.

9 Paulo de Souza originally cited in Honorio Rodrigues, José et al, eds., O parlamento e a evolução nacional (Brasília: Senado Federal, 1972), v. 2 pp. 345–346.Google Scholar The citation of de Souza was translated and cited by Aufderheide, , “Order and Violence,” pp. 308–309;Google Scholar On improper sentencing, Bandeira, , Infor-mações, p. 21.Google Scholar

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11 For a harrowing description of prison labor on Rio’s dikes, Cypriano José Barata de Almeida [attributed], “Dissertação abreviada sobre o horrível masmona—Pressiganga—existente no Rio de Janeiro,” Rio de Janeiro, May 26, 1929, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Lata 48, doc. 12.

12 Luiz Riberio, João, No meio das galinhas, ch. 1 and 2;Google Scholar José Reis, João, Rebelião escrava no Brasil: a historia do levante dos Males (1835) (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2003);Google Scholar Brown, , “Ά Black Mark on Our Legislation,’” p. 107.Google Scholar

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14 On the Brazilian state’s reliance on Portguese jurisprudence especially in the area of family law see, e.g., Lewin, Linda, Surprise Heirs, 2 vols. (Stanford University Press, 2003).Google Scholar

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17 In his diaries, Pedro II noted his opposition to the death penalty. Vianna, Hélio, ed., “Diário de 1862,” Anuãrio do Museu Imperial 17 (1956), pp. 19, 76;Google Scholar Diary entries for May 31, 1890 and June 15, 1890 in the Arquivo Histórico do Museu Imperial, Coleção Pedro d’Orléans e Bragança, Catalogo Β, Maço 35, Doc. 1,057.1 thank Roderick J. Barman for sharing these sources on Pedro IPs opinions of the death penalty.

18 Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estetistica [IBGE], Estatísticas históricas do Brasil, 2nd ed. (Rio: IBGE, 1990), pp. 31–33.

19 Moráis, Evaristo de, Prisões e Instituições Penitenciárias no Brasil (Rio: Liv. Ed. Conselheiro C. de Oliveira, 1923), p. 35.Google Scholar

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22 Alexandre de Barros e Albuquerque ao Adolpho de Barros, Fernando de Noronha, 3 Sept. 1879, APPJE, livro FN-19, f. 293.

23 Souza Bandeira noted that authorities in Recife’s Casa de Detenção sent prisoners to Fernando de Noronha to releave overcrowded cells without the authorization of imperial authorities in Informações, 18.

24 Livro de matricula, 1865; Livro de matricula, 1885.

25 Carpenter, Frank D.Y., Round About Rio (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1884), pp. 328–329.Google Scholar I thank Tracy Alexander and Β. J. Barickman for sharing this citation.

26 Journal do Comercio, Rio, , May 20, 1879;Google Scholar Arauto de Minas, São João d’el Rey, July 14, 1881; Observations about slave lynchings originally cited in Ribeiro, , No meio das galinhas, 285–86, 292, 303, 304, 308;Google Scholar Fleury referred to slave lynchings as “acts of sedition and barbarism” in Parecer, 15; Davis, David Brion, From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 22.Google Scholar

27 Francisco Joaquim Pereira Lobo ao Pres. José Manoel de Freitas, Fernando de Noronha, Apr. 20, 1884, APPJE, livro FN-23, no f. nos.

28 Ao rogo do supplicante Antonio Ferreira [por Liberalino Rodrigues Machado] ao Generalissimo Chefe do Governo Provisorio dos Estados Unidos do Brasil (hereafter EUB), Fernando de Noronha, 20 May 1890, APPJE, livro FN-29, f. 197.

29 Slave convict and ex-slave in this case study are one and the same. To limit confusion, however, I privilege the term slave convict in the text, but “ex-slave” appears in citations and some analysis. In 1875, a report indicated that four male and female slaves were resident on the island. ‘Relação,” Fernando de Noronha, 1 Jan. 1876, APEJE, FN-17, f. 145–179.

30 [Agostinho Marques] Malheiro, Perdigão, A escravidão no Brasil: ensaio histórico, jurídico, social 2 vols. 3rd ed. [1st ed. 1867–69] (Petropolis: Vozes, 1976), I, pp. 17–75, 95, 181-183; II, pp. 123124;Google Scholar The citation was translated into English in Conrad, Robert E, Children of God’s Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil (Penn State University Press, 1994), pp. 237–245.Google Scholar

31 Francisco Joaquim Pereira Lobo ao Presidente Conde de Baependy, Fernando de Noronha, 16 Sept. 1868, APEJE, livro FN-13, f. 380.

32 One inspector observed that convict scriveners copied vital information from guias which they could manipulate. He complained that records were often imcomplete. Souza Bandeira, , Informações, pp. 11, 13.Google Scholar

33 The slave João Bras is listed as the former slave of the Bronice de Itu in an 1889 petition. Joaquim Agripino Furtado Mendonça ao Presidente Innocencio Marques d'Araujo Goes, Fernando de Noronha, 5 Jan. 1889, APPJE, livro FN-28, f. 94.

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36 Matriculation books show that convicts were tried in more than 270 municipalités across Brazil. Only 133 of 1,058 cases came from provincial capitals and the national capital, and more than half of these (72) came from Recife. Many small towns contributed only one convict to the colony’s population, but some smaller Pernambucan towns produced many: Pão de Alho (30), Bonito (20), Limoeiro (19), Goiana (15), Victoria (15), and Escada (14). Livro de matricula, 1865 and Livro de matricula, 1885.

37 Confusion over one minor’s sentence is telling. While his prison record noted that he had been sentence to perpetual galleys, the commander confirmed that “because he was a minor he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.” Joaquim Agripino Furtado Mendonça ao Presidente Pedro Vicente de Azevedo, Fernando de Noronha, 22 Sept. 1887, APPJE, FN-26, f. 278; Ribeiro, , No meio das galinhas, pp. 525–530.Google Scholar

38 Free and slave convicts did conspire together. The slave convict Marcai escaped with five free inmates in 1884. Brigadeiro Francisco Joaquim Pereira Lobo ao Presidente José Manoel de Freitas, Fernando de Noronha, 22 Apr. 1884, APPJE, FN-23, no f. nos. ; for another escape of free and slave convicts, Ibid., Tenente Coronel Sebastiao Antonio do Regó Barros ao Presidente João Pedro Carvalho de Moraes, 23 Set 1875, FN-16, f. 469–470; another Commander noted that three prisoners plotted crimes together and terrorized other convicts. One of them was “Sebastiao, known as Kangaroo, ex-slave of Pedro Antonio de Sá Cavalcante” and the other two were free men. One of the free men, Vicente de Assis Tavares, wrote a petition asking to be liberated from one of the island’s few prison cells. He wrote, “Igualdade e fraternidade deve ser a bandeira existente entre os sentenciados.” Ibid., Director Luiz Paulino de Hollanda Valença ao Presidente Manoel Alves de Araujo, 6 Nov. 1889, FN-28, f. 466; Ibid., Do sentenciado pobre Vicente de Assis Tavares ao Director Luiz Paulino de Hollanda Valença, 2 Nov. 1889, FN-28, f. 467-8. Slave and free convicts also figured among the main conspirators in a suppressed 1854 inmate uprising, Tenente Coronel Commandante José Antonio Pinto ao Presidente José Bento da Cunha Figueredo, Fernando de Noronha, Jan. 29, 1854, APEJE, FN-6, f. 26.

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40 This is why the director refers to 263 ex-slave convicts, but based on all entries, this article refers to 264.

41 The Sexagenarian Law freed slaves over 65 immediately, but it required that slaves 60 to 64 continue to provide service until they reached age 65.

42 J. Dos Passo Queiroz ao Innocencio Marques d’Araujo Goes, Fernando de Noronha, 20 Apr. 1889, APPJE, livro FN-28, f. 261.

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47 Mattos, Hebe Maria, Das cores do siléncio: Os significados de liberdade no sudeste escravista— Brasil século XIX 2nd Ed. (Rio: Nova Fronteira, 1995), pp. 96–103;Google Scholar Another study on color and public documentation is da Cünha, Olivia Gomes, Intenção e gesto: pessoa, cor e a produção da (in)diferença no Rio de Janeiro, 1927–1942 (Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Nacional, 2002).Google Scholar One inspector complained that penal colony authorities had no description of an inmate who escaped on a raft. Bandeira, Souza, Infor-mações, p. 13.Google Scholar

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49 The report also notes that 44 women lived in consensual unions (“amaziadas”) with convicts, but it does not inform whether they were amaziadas with widower, married, or bachelor convicts. “Relatório… Gusmão Coelho,” APPJE, f. 2.

50 Conselheiro Fleury cited in Moráis, , Prisões, pp. 79–80;Google Scholar On “vices” and slavery, Beattie, Peter M, “The Disputed Sale of the Slave Silvestre: Mental Health, Sexuality, Corporal Punishment and ‘Vices’ in Recife, Brazil, 1869–1878,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y El Caribe 16:1 (2005), pp. 41–65.Google Scholar

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55 In imperial Brazil, the right to vote hinged on whether one was a head of household (unless one held a commissioned military officer’s rank or an advanced degree). The law assumed that household dependents lacked the liberty to vote their conscience. Barickman, , “Reading the 1835 Parish Censuses,” pp. 318–319;Google Scholar Similarly, the law shielded married heads of household who provided for and protected their wives and dependents from coercive military recruitment, a duty that police officials often used to punish free poor patriarchs who did not live up to their marital obligations. Slaves were legally exempt from military impressment because they were the private property of citizens, but they sometimes ran away and joined the military posing as freemen. Beattie, The Tribute of Blood, ch. 2.

56 Francisco Joaquim Pereira Lobo ao Sancho de Barros Pimental, Fernando de Noronha, 13 Dee. 1884, APPJE, livro FN-23, no f. nos.

57 “Director Joaquim de Gusmão Coelho ao Cidadão Desembargador José Antonio Correia da Silva, Presidente do Estado de Pernambuco, Relação nominal dos sentenciados, sentenciadas, e deportados que seguem a bordo do vapor Beberibe,” Fernando de Noronha, 19 Nov 1890, APPJE, livro FN-29, f. 381–2; References to same-sex “marriages” among convicts on Fernando de Noronha date to at least 1797. See, e.g., Carta de Bernardo Luis Ferreira Portugal ao Illmo. e Exmo. Dom Francisco de Souza Coutinho, Para, Dez. 26, 1797, Biblioteca Nacional Rio de Janeiro, Seção de Manuscritos, código 07-04-041.

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60 Francisco Joaquim Pereira Lobo ao José Antonio de Souza Lima, Fernando de Noronha, 11 Nov. 1881, APPJE, livro FN-21, no f. nos. The argument that authorities only shackled men as punishment for criminal infractions is confirmed by an American journalist who reported: “The only fettered man on the island was here a large boned, flabby, ungainly, scowling individual, evidently despised by his fellow prisoners for having murdered a man in his sleep.” “Fernando Noronha,” Scribner’s Monthly, pp. 538–539.

61 Francisco Joaquim Pereira Lobo ao José Antonio de Souza Lima, Fernando de Noronha, 11 Nov. 1881, APPJE, livro FN-21, no f. nos.

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66 Joaquim Agripino Furtado Mendonça ao João Rodrigues Chaves, Fernando de Noronha, 12 July 1885, APPJE, livro FN-24, no f. nos; Joaquim Agripino Furtado Mendonça ao Barão de Souza Leão, Fernando de Noronha, 15 June 1889, APPJE, livro FN-28, f. 322.

67 Joaquim Agripino Furtado Mendonça ao João Rodrigues Chaves, Fernando de Noronha, 20 May 1885, APEJE, livro, FN-24, no f. nos; Joaquim Agripino Furtado Mendonça ao Barão de Souza Leão, Fernando de Noronha, 15 June 1889, APEJE, FN-28, f. 322; Another letter shows that the slave convict Marçal Correia was pardoned and returned to Recife on 13 May 1889. Director Luiz Paulino de Hollanda Valença ao Presidente Manoel Alves de Araujo, Fernando de Noronha, 17 Nov. 1889, APEJE, livro FN-28, f. 479.

68 Joaquim Agripino Furtado Mendonça ao Pedro Vicente de Azevedo, Fernando de Noronha, 20 May 1887, APEJE, livro FN-26, f. 156; Similarly, Pedro pardoned the slave Cesario on 23 April 1886 as published in the Diário Official according to Director Gonçalvez Pereira Lima ao Vice Presidente Igná-cio Joaquim de Souza Leão, Fernando de Noronha, 13 May 1886, APEJE, livro FN-25, f. 167;“Constando do Diário Official numero 94 de 5 de Abril ultimo que forão perdoados os sentenciados Manoel Francisco dos Santos conhecido por Gongo, Antonio Justino Riberio, e Francisco Angola os quaes nesta data faço embarcar.” Joaquim Agripino Furtado Mendonça ao João Rodrigues Chaves, 20 May 1885, APEJE, livro FN-24, no f. nos; Also see pardon for João Marques, Copia do Guia do Sentenciado João Marques, escravo que foi dos Frades Benedictos de Olinda, Fernando de Noronha, 2 Julho 1878, APEJE, livro FN-18, f. 255.

69 Director Justino Rodrigues da Silveira ao Cidadão General Governador do Estado de Pernambuco (no name given), Fernando de Noronha, 17 Dec. 1889, APPJE, livro FN 28, f. 496.

70 Ao rogo do Supplicante Francisco de Assis (por Sobel Henriques de Miranda) ao Cidadao Chefe do Governo Provisorio dos EUB, Fernando de Noronha, 21 May 1890, APPJE, livro FN-29, f. 268.

71 Carta de Manoel de Miranda ao Cidadao Generalissimo Chefe do Governo Provisorio dos EUB, 5 May 1890, APPJE, livro FN-29, f. 189; Director Justino Rodriguez da Silveira ao Cidadao Maréchal Governador Provisorio dos EUB, Ibid., 20 May 1890, f. 188.

72 Cadete João da Costa Medeiros Sobrinho ao Cidadão General e Chefe do Governo Provisorio dos EUB, Fernando de Noronha, 8 Jan. 1890, APPJE, livro FN-29, f. 4.

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