BETWEEN WATERS, BORDERS OF THE AMAZON

Abstract

This article presents a survey of companies constituted by mocambeiros, indians, mestizo and free white people established in border regions located in the Brazilian Amazon. These are organized populations in areas of difficult in areas between Pará, Maranhão and the Guianas that, despite being marginalized colonial and postcolonial world, posed a threat to slave labor advocated until the end of the 19th century in Brazil. According to documents governmental organizations, they represented a danger because of their ample relations with and Guianese mocambeiros, as well as, for possible long-range riots. The influence of the French, American and, above all, the of Haiti were plaguing Portuguese and Brazilians worried about maintaining the system slave

Keywords

• frontiers
• Amazons
• revolutions
• mocambos