Guerra dos Manao: mão de obra indígena e os agentes de interesses (1718-1732)

Abstract

This article Guerra dos Manao: Colonial Administration and Agents of Interests (1718-1732) aims to contribute to research related to the colonial Amazon, with the objective of bringing the presence of governors and agents involved in the War of the Manao, pointing out the interests and stakeholders that existed behind it. The research was carried out through works already developed, documents from the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino and Livro Grosso do Maranhão, from which I could verify that the Manao war was the result of the process of colonial expansion in the Amazon that was heading in several directions, one of them being the Rio Negro, causing the war, soon the environment became conducive to profits as a result of it. From the results obtained, I was able to conclude that the distance between the colony and Portugal favored the performance of characters, given the lack of enforcement of laws, especially the role of the governor of Maranhão, Alexandre de Sousa Freire, with indigenous slavery in the Manao war.