Os bens e herdeiros de Dona Anna Rosa Roberta de Vasconcellos (Itaguaí, 1830- 1865)

Abstract

The present dissertation has as conducting line Dona Anna Rosa Roberta de Vasconcellos, slaves‘ owner in the Vila of São Francisco Xavier, who at the moment of death on May 24th 1848 leaves expressed not only the evaluation of her goods, but also the list of heirs, as well as creditor. Our goal is to investigate the ―web‘ of relationships twisted by this Dona Anna and reflect on her work in the area of agricultural production in the region from the reading of the Post-Mortem Inventory of Dona Anna Rosa. The Vila was composed by three freguesias: São Francisco Xavier de Itaguaí (actual Itaguaí); Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Bananal (actual Seropédica, which makes frontier with Marapicú, belonging to Nova Iguaçu); and São Pedro e São Paulo do Ribeirão das Lajes (actual Paracambi). Until 1883, when Nossa Senhora da Guia de Mangaratiba is elevated to a Vila, integrated the lands of Itaguaí. The inventory and testament will make it possible to know more about the slavery of our owner, highlighting their ages, sexes, values and places of origin and their relation with the relatives listed as heirs, from the conflict that involved the tutelage of the "natural children" of their deceased son