The trader of "Terras Frias": an analysis of the Portuguese Antonio José Mendes’s land acquisition strategies (Nova Friburgo, 1860-1914)

• Autor(a) principal: Frazão, Gabriel Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Maracanan (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/maracanan/article/view/44838
• topic: Nova Friburgo; Region; Portuguese Immigration; Rural Property; Nova Friburgo; Região; Imigração Portuguesa; Propriedade Rural.

This article aims to understand the process of the territorial occupation of Nova Friburgo city, still little investigated: the so-called Terras Frias, which during great part of 21st century until nowadays covered locations also belonging to Sumidouro and Teresópolis. For such, it was performed a case study about the Portuguese trader Antonio José Mendes (1822-1921), a family patriarch, that accumulated a great amount of land to the local patterns. Through an onomastic investigation in public registry, religious and private documents, the path of an important lineage to that territory is recovered. This way, the paper is divided into three parts: first, the state of the research about that territoriality and about the presence of Portuguese immigrants in the city is presented; second, a characterization of the studied area understood here as a cattle production supply, marked by the presence of Portuguese families; finally, economics strategies used by Mendes for acquiring assets and accumulating properties.