Senhores de engenho e lavradoresde cana-de-açúcarda capitania de Pernambuco:Conflitos e direitos de propriedade,América portuguesa, século XVIII

In the Captaincy of Pernambuco, in Portuguese America, sugar cane mill lords andsugar farmers managed throughout seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesto secure successive extensions a privilege guaranteeing that their prop-erty would not be confiscated as payment for debt. To understand how this privilegehelped preserve patrimony local nobility sugar-based economy Per-nambuco, origins debates surrounding it were analyzed. Re-search work involved accessing diverse historical sources, mainly OverseasHistorical Archive, Historical Documents collection National Library Riode Janeiro Torre do Tombo Archive Lisbon