2. António de Gouveia- Brazil
• Time period:
– Born in 1528
– Died some time around
1575
• Location:
– Born in the Azores
– Moved to Lisbon at age
20
– Later sent to Brazil
• Group:
– Portuguese
• Gender:
– Male
• Occupation:
– Priest
• General History:
– He spent most of his life
studying alchemy,
“curing” sick people with
magical objects and
scamming people.
– After several encounters
with the Inquisition, he
was exiled to Brazil.
– There he spent his time
capturing slaves, until he
was sent back to Lisbon.
3. Catarina de Monte Sinay-
Brazil
• Time Period:
– Born in 1680
– Died in 1758
• Location:
– Bahia, Brazil
• Group:
– Portuguese
• Gender:
– Female
• Occupation:
– Nun
• General History
– She was raised to be a
nun, and entered a
convent at age 16.
– She was good with
money, and she made a
large income selling
sweets and giving loans.
– She used the money to
provide for the convent
and for her slaves.
4. Francisca- Brazil
• Time Period:
– Born between 1700 and
1705
• Location:
– Raised in the Rio Negro
Valley
• Group:
– Manao Indian
• Gender:
– Female
• Occupation:
– Slave
• General History:
– Her chief traded her to a
slave trader as a good
will gesture and illegally
enslaved.
– She ended up as a
servant to Anna de Fonte
– After 20 years, she
petitioned Portuguese
authorities for her
freedom.
– She lost the case and
remained a slave for the
rest of her life.
5. The Portuguese Empire
• Portugal became a world power during the Age of
Discovery, in the 15th and 16th centuries.
• Explorers like Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco
de Gama discovered new lands across the Indian
and Atlantic Oceans.
• Explorers were motivated by wealth, power, prestige,
trade, and spreading Catholicism.
• They built an empire including territories in South
America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.
• Portugal had a virtual monopoly on the African
seaborne slave trade, lasting for over 100 years.
• It was the longest-lived of the modern European
colonial empires.
6. Colonial Brazil
• The Portuguese arrived in 1500, and Brazil
remained their colony for over 300 years.
• Brazil provided them with sugarcane, brazilwood,
gold, diamonds, and slaves.
• More slaves were brought over from Africa to
help extract natural resources and serve the
Europeans.
• Jesuits were sent over to Christianize the
indigenous people.
• In 1808 the Portuguese court moved its
government to Rio de Janeiro to escape
Napoleon’s invasion.
• When they returned to Portugal in 1821, the
regent of Brazil declared himself emperor and
Brazil seceded from Portuguese rule.
7. Portuguese Explorers
• Ferdinand Magellan made the first voyage
around the world in
• Vasco de Gama discovered an ocean route to
the East
• Bartholomeu Dias led a voyage around the
Cape of Good Hope in 1487
• Pedro Alvares Cabral was the first European
to see Brazil in 1500
• Gaspar and Miguel Corte-Real explored
Greenland and the coast of Newfoundland
