ETHNIC-RACIAL CONFLICTS IN THE WORLDS OF BAHIAN WORK: "VALID, ADDICTED AND DANGEROUS"

Abstract

The second half of the nineteenth century was a period of economic agitation in the São Sebastião de Maraú vile because, to everyone's surprise, on the riverside that named the town, was discovered several types of minerals coveted by industry. A group of Brazilians dedicated themselves to such explorations but had such a right ripped out in the name of government interests, which hung to meet British ambitions, and Edward Pellew Wilson got by imperial decree to be responsible for the extraction of such riches. Years later he transferred to his countryman John Cameron Grant this benefit, and John Grant and Company built a factory that produced sulfuric acid, candles, soap, etc. on the farm called João Branco in that village. There the sertanejo Bernardino Moreira de Souza worked, a man about whom the greatest source of information comes from the lawsuit filed that emerged when he died, what happened when he tried to kill his British employers.

Keywords: British; Factory, Maraú.