Ricardo Alexandre Ferreira is a Professor of Modern History at the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho. He develops research activities related to African slavery and the construction of the Modern State in the Portuguese portions of the Iberian Peninsula and America, between the 17th and 19th centuries. He was Head of the Department of History at UNESP de Franca and editor of the magazine História (São Paulo) at UNESP between 2015 and 2017. He coordinated the Postgraduate Program in History at UNESP (Câmpus de Franca) between 2017 and 2020 and the Postgraduate Program in History at UNESP, arising from the merger of the PPG-History of UNESP de Assis and Franca, in the years 2020 and 2021. He worked, between 2015 and 2021, as the researcher responsible for the subproject Legislation, law and slavery in the Portuguese portion of the Americas: from ordinances to manuals and practical treatises (18th and 19th centuries) that integrated the Thematic Project Writings about the new worlds: a history of the construction of moral values in Portuguese, hosted at UNESP and financed by FAPESP (Process 2013/14786-6). He is a researcher at the History Center of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, where he has been a Senior Visiting Professor since August 2022 (CAPES). He is supervisor of CEDAPH - Center for Documentation and Support for Historical Research at UNESP, Campus de Franca. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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In Brazil of the Eightieth, the problem of public security, as a matter of government, followed the birth of the Imperial State, especially after the entry into force of the 1824 Constitution, provinces, positions and institutions with the competence to prevent the practice of crimes. In many ways, and this was not a specificity of Brazilian history, civilizing and avoiding the practice o…
Due to the english pressure and other variables of the established political debate, most of all, at the law houses of the Empire of Brazil, the government sanctioned, on November, 7, 1831, the law which prohibited the transatlantic traffic and freed all africans who were to land in the territory after this sentence, with the condition of compulsorily staying under braziian State authorit…
The purpose of this research project is to map the different legitimate titles of slavery, as well as the moral imposition of responsibility to the Portuguese State in maintaining and overseeing the legitimacy of the slave trade in the 16th century. For this purpose, the main documental corpus will be the work of Luís de Molina - Tractatus de iustitia et de iure - originally published in …
The research project proposed aims at analyzing the relationship between the established norm and the transgressions recorded, judged and punished about crimes of sexual nature in which the women were involved and were defined as criminals or victims in the city of São Paulo under the Criminal Code of the Empire of Brazil. In order to carry out such an objective, in addition to the study…
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The Holy Office of the Inquisition of Portugal judged and sentenced a number of deviations from heresy and different types of defendants. Among the persecuted profiles, attention was directed mainly to the dissidents committed by the New-Christians, which did not exclude the concern about other types of accused: clerics, fidalgos, peões, Africans and their descendants. Those, if were not …
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