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Nesta pesquisa buscamos, por meio da análise do processo de redução do maniel de Neiba, desatar uma pequena parte da emaranhada trama que compõe a história do Mundo Atlântico na segunda metade do século XVIII. Ocupando a brecha formada pelo choque dos projetos coloniais díspares dos Impérios espanhol e francês para a Ilha de Española, os cimarrones do maniel de Neiba mobilizaram uma rede de interesses, cumplicidades e solidariedades que lhes permitiu empreender um projeto de liberdade que buscava reunir as benesses de uma vida tutelada com a autonomia que haviam conquistado na Serra do Baoruco, fronteira sul entre as colônias de Santo Domingo e Saint Domingue. / In this research we seek, through the analysis of the reducción process of the maniel of Neiba, untie a small part of the tangled web that makes up the history of the Atlantic World in the second half of the eighteenth century. Occupying the gap formed by the shock of different colonial projects on the Española Island, the maroons of the maniel of Neiba mobilized a network of interest, complicity and solidarity that allowed them to undertake a project of freedom that tried to gather the benefits of a life controlled by the Spaniards with autonomy that they conquered in the Baorucos Mountains, southern border between the Santo Domingo and Saint Domingue colonies.

A dissertação analisa a produção do espaço e da paisagem do município Vassouras no século XIX, com ênfase no espaço urbano. Centro da cafeicultura escravista fluminense e núcleo do Partido Conservador, a cidade foi um lócus privilegiado de sociabilidade das principais famílias, assim como da construção das instituições do Império em nível local. Tanto residências privadas quanto edifícios públicos foram veículos de estratégias das famílias dominantes, como monumentos à construção de sua identidade de classe e de suas conexões com a monarquia e o Império. Ao mesmo tempo, suas instituições políticas serviram à defesa do tráfico e do cativeiro, enquanto o judiciário foi disputado por múltiplos agentes sociais, prevalecendo o papel de manutenção da ordem senhorial. Vassouras foi o resultado de lutas desiguais entre autoridades públicas, senhores e escravos, prevalecendo os interesses dos potentados, que impuseram à paisagem e à memória do Vale do Paraíba um discurso seletivo do passado, em que palacetes legaram às sombras as senzalas, faces complementares da arquitetura da escravidão. / This dissertation analyzes the production of space and landscape in Vassouras, Brazil, in the nineteenth century. Since Vassouras was the center of both the coffee economy and the Conservative Party in the Province of Rio de Janeiro, the city was an important social space, where the political and judicial institutions of the Imperial state were built. Both private residences and public buildings were elements of political strategies of the richest and most powerful families, as monuments to their class identity and their connections to the monarchy and the Empire. The local political and judicial systems were primarily concerned with the maintenance and defense of the slave trade and slavery. Vassouras was created out of the uneven social struggle between public authorities, slaveholders and slaves. The slaveholders prevailed and their interests are reflected in the landscape and memory of the Parahyba Valley, where cabins remained in the shadows of palaces, complementary faces of the architecture of slavery.

A dissertação analisa a produção do espaço e da paisagem do município Vassouras no século XIX, com ênfase no espaço urbano. Centro da cafeicultura escravista fluminense e núcleo do Partido Conservador, a cidade foi um lócus privilegiado de sociabilidade das principais famílias, assim como da construção das instituições do Império em nível local. Tanto residências privadas quanto edifícios públicos foram veículos de estratégias das famílias dominantes, como monumentos à construção de sua identidade de classe e de suas conexões com a monarquia e o Império. Ao mesmo tempo, suas instituições políticas serviram à defesa do tráfico e do cativeiro, enquanto o judiciário foi disputado por múltiplos agentes sociais, prevalecendo o papel de manutenção da ordem senhorial. Vassouras foi o resultado de lutas desiguais entre autoridades públicas, senhores e escravos, prevalecendo os interesses dos potentados, que impuseram à paisagem e à memória do Vale do Paraíba um discurso seletivo do passado, em que palacetes legaram às sombras as senzalas, faces complementares da arquitetura da escravidão. / This dissertation analyzes the production of space and landscape in Vassouras, Brazil, in the nineteenth century. Since Vassouras was the center of both the coffee economy and the Conservative Party in the Province of Rio de Janeiro, the city was an important social space, where the political and judicial institutions of the Imperial state were built. Both private residences and public buildings were elements of political strategies of the richest and most powerful families, as monuments to their class identity and their connections to the monarchy and the Empire. The local political and judicial systems were primarily concerned with the maintenance and defense of the slave trade and slavery. Vassouras was created out of the uneven social struggle between public authorities, slaveholders and slaves. The slaveholders prevailed and their interests are reflected in the landscape and memory of the Parahyba Valley, where cabins remained in the shadows of palaces, complementary faces of the architecture of slavery.

The Second Seminole War in Florida, 1835-1842, was a time of disruption and upheaval for all of those unfortunate enough to occupy the territory of Florida during the seven years of this protracted battle over Seminole removal to the West. Illicit trade was a major factor which enabled the Seminoles to resist removal for such an extended period. Illicit trade requires outside assistance. Documentary evidence suggests that such assistance was rendered by Spanish fishermen, English and American wreckers, slaves, free blacks, Native Americans and white American settlers. This thesis examines the evidence for plunder and illicit trade, and the possible outlets for various classes of plunder. Evidence is examined within a political economy theoretical framework. An archaeological research design is also developed to aid in identifying and recognizing war camps and war caches in the archaeological record.

Nesta pesquisa buscamos, por meio da análise do processo de redução do maniel de Neiba, desatar uma pequena parte da emaranhada trama que compõe a história do Mundo Atlântico na segunda metade do século XVIII. Ocupando a brecha formada pelo choque dos projetos coloniais díspares dos Impérios espanhol e francês para a Ilha de Española, os cimarrones do maniel de Neiba mobilizaram uma rede de interesses, cumplicidades e solidariedades que lhes permitiu empreender um projeto de liberdade que buscava reunir as benesses de uma vida tutelada com a autonomia que haviam conquistado na Serra do Baoruco, fronteira sul entre as colônias de Santo Domingo e Saint Domingue. / In this research we seek, through the analysis of the reducción process of the maniel of Neiba, untie a small part of the tangled web that makes up the history of the Atlantic World in the second half of the eighteenth century. Occupying the gap formed by the shock of different colonial projects on the Española Island, the maroons of the maniel of Neiba mobilized a network of interest, complicity and solidarity that allowed them to undertake a project of freedom that tried to gather the benefits of a life controlled by the Spaniards with autonomy that they conquered in the Baorucos Mountains, southern border between the Santo Domingo and Saint Domingue colonies.

Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829 The lenses through which our common perceptions of African/Black agency in the antebellum period are viewed, synthetic textbooks and maps, rarely reveal the tremendous number of liberating acts that characterized the movements of Black people in the South from 1783 to 1829. During the American Revolution, 80,000 to 100,000 such enslaved Africans threw off their yokes and escaped their bondage. Subsequently, large numbers embarked on British ships as part of the Loyalist exodus from the United States, while others fled to the deep South, to Native lands, to the North, or held their ground right where they were, attempting, as maroons, to establish themselves and survive as free persons. While recent historical scholarship has identified many of the primary sources and themes that characterize such massive levels of proactivity, few have tried to present them as a synthetic whole. This applies to maps used to illustrate the African American history of those regions and times as well. Illustrating these movements defines the scope of this scholarly work entitled Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829. This work also critically looks at several contemporary maps of this period published in authoritative atlases or textbooks and subsequently creates three original maps to represent the proactive movements and relationships of Africans during this period. / African American Studies