Em verdes labirintos: a construção social da fronteira franco-portuguesa (1760-1803)

Abstract

At the end of XVIII century on the frontier between the capitania of Grão-Pará and Guiana Francesa, the disputes between governments the Grão-Pará and Guiana Francesa for the maintenance and enlargement of their domains were intense, the territory located between Oiapoque and Araguari was the scene of those disputes. Although the portugueses authorities had other concerns with the region, because the runaway slaves and the mocambos formation closer the headwaters of Araguari river were considered uncontrollable by the portugueses governments. In those final seven hundred years the Portuguese colonial authorities were, mainly, worry with the news about the abolition of slavery in French colonies (1794) that could contaminate and motivate the escape of slaves from Grão- Pará. This survey deals essentially with the several aspects of frontier, the escape of slaves and mocambos training in the border region at Cabo Norte land among the years from 1760 to 1803