Liberated Africans and Slaves of the Nation Assigned to the Office of Public Works, Rio de Janeiro, 1860-1863

This dataset contains a list of 119 enslaved individuals working for the Office of Public Works (Inspecção Geral das Obras Públicas), which was part of the State Secretariat of Affairs in Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works (Secretaria de Estado dos Negócios da Agricultura, Comércio e Obras Públicas) created by the Brazilian Empire in 1860. The dataset consolidates information collected by the Inspector of Public Works, Christiano Pereira de Azeredo Coutinho, and published in the annual ministry reports delivered to the General Assembly (Assembleia Geral) in the years of 1861, 1862, and 1863. The enslaved individuals mentioned in the dataset held the legal status of either Liberated Africans (Africanos Livres) or Slaves of Nation (Escravos da Nação), and their work assignments were distributed throughout the city of Rio de Janeiro. Among them are the enslaved workers assigned to the reforestation of the Tijuca and Paineiras Forests, a state-sponsored initiative responsible for recovering the tree canopy of former coffee plantations during the late nineteenth-century.

本数据集收录了119名受雇于公共工程署（Office of Public Works, Inspecção Geral das Obras Públicas）的被奴役劳工。该机构隶属于巴西帝国1860年设立的农业、商业与公共事务国务秘书处（Secretaria de Estado dos Negócios da Agricultura, Comércio e Obras Públicas）。本数据集整合汇编了公共工程督察员克里斯蒂亚诺·佩雷拉·德·阿泽雷多·库蒂尼奥（Christiano Pereira de Azeredo Coutinho）所收集的信息，相关内容刊载于1861年、1862年及1863年提交至总议会（General Assembly, Assembleia Geral）的年度部委报告中。本数据集中提及的被奴役劳工的法律身份分为两类：获释非洲人（Liberated Africans, Africanos Livres）与国家属奴（Slaves of Nation, Escravos da Nação），其工作岗位遍布里约热内卢全市。其中部分劳工被指派参与蒂茹卡森林（Tijuca Forests）与帕内拉斯森林（Paineiras Forests）的造林修复工程——这项由国家主导的项目旨在恢复19世纪后期原咖啡种植园的林木冠层。