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SPE Seção do Poder Executivo Test. Testamento uncat. uncatalogued VP Vice Presidente Note: Unless otherwise stated, all cited correspondence originated in Salvador . Many documents at the Arquivo Municipal de Salvador (AMS) that were uncatalogued when this research was carried out (and labeled here “uncat.”) have since been catalogued. Some materials at the Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (APEB) have been recatalogued with new numbers after research was completed. introduction 1. For thinking about the history of the Atlantic World see David Eltis, “Atlantic History in Global Perspective,” Itinerario 23, no. 2 (1999): 141–161; J. H. Elliott, “Atlantic History: A Circumnavigation,” in The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800, ed. David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick (New York: Palgrave and Macmillan, 2002), 233–249; and Júnia Ferreira Furtado, ed., Diálogos oceânicos: Minas Gerais e as novas abordagens para uma história do império ultramarino português (Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2001). 2. On this variety and interconnectedness, see, for example, Laura de Mello e Souza, Desclassificados do ouro: A pobreza mineira no século XVIII (Rio de Janeiro: Graal, 1982); Vera Lúcia Ferlini, “Pobres do açucar: Estrutura produtiva e relações de poder no Nordeste colonial,” in História econômica do período colonial : Coletânea de textos apresentados no 1 Congresso Brasileiro de História Econômica (Campus da USP, setembro de 1993), ed. Tamás Szmrecsányi (São Paulo: HUCITEC, FAPESP, and Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Hist ória Econômica, 1996), pp. 28–29, 31; and Luciano Figueiredo, O avesso da mem ória: Cotidiano e trabalho da mulher em Minas Geraes no século XVIII (Rio de Janeiro and Brasília: José Olympio and EDUNB, 1993). And on Spanish America, R. Douglas Cope, The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994). 3. On the worth of wills and testaments as historical documents, compare Sarah Cline, “Fray Alonso de Molina’s Model Testament and Antecedents to Indigenous Wills in Spanish America,” with Kevin Terraciano, “Native Expressions of Piety in Mextec Testaments,” both in Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes, ed. Susan Kellogg and Matthew Restall (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998), pp. 24–25 and 126–127. See also Kátia M. de Queirós Mattoso, Testamentos de escravos libertos na Bahia no século XIX (Salvador: Centro de Estudos Bahianos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 1979), p. 21, and James Lockhart, The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. 251–252. chapter 1 1. Andrew Grant, History of Brazil Comprising a Geographical Account of That Country, Together with a Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which 226 notes to pages 2–9 Graham-final.indb 226 Graham-final.indb 226 6/30/10 10:33:34 AM 6/30/10 10:33:34 AM ...

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