"Não se faz nem se consolida uma colônia sem habitantes, aliás, sem muitos habitantes": o degredo e a colonização nas terras do Grão-Pará na década de 1770

Abstract

The Amazon has always been surrounded by an imaginary about what existed in this region, wild people, Fantastic animals and unknown diseases were terms that influenced enough to make the region not inviting the coming of colonizers. In this sense, the crown needed to avail itself of occupational policies in order to maintain the ownership of the region through occupation, going to be worth the justice of both the ecclesiastical and the "common" justice and the punishment of exile to colonize the region. Starting from this scenario, the research approaches through inquisitory processes where the convicts were obliged to fulfill the sentences of exile in the region belonging to Grão-Pará, the way these degredata were used in this occupational policy that was Thought for the region, we deal with the history of the Inquisition in the region, we treat how it was instituted and how it was maintained in the region and finally we bring example of the village of new Mazagão to exemplify the occupation of the region