Free Africans and Concessionaires, Rio de Janeiro, 1860

This dataset is drawn from an enhanced transcription of "Relação de todos os Africanos livres que athé o presente data ainda se acham sob a responsabilidade dos particulares a quem foram confiados. Extrahidos em o mez de Março de 1860," an 111-page hand-written nominal registry of 849 private concessionaires (also known as “guardians”) and 1,342 Free Africans (also known as emancipados or Liberated Africans) residing in Brazil in early 1860. The manuscript lists Free Africans originally emancipated between 1834 and 1849 who remained under apprenticeship in private households in Rio de Janeiro, nearby Niterói, and towns in the interior. The registry lists the complete name of a concessionaire, a residence, and the given name(s) and nation(s) of the African(s) under compulsory tutelage. Additional transcribed information includes the number of years since the original concession and the annual fee (labeled as a “salary”) paid by the concessionaire to the Brazilian government, to be held to offset the costs of the African’s eventual “re-exportation.”

本数据集源自一份经增强处理的转录文本，其原标题为《Relação de todos os Africanos livres que athé o presente data ainda se acham sob a responsabilidade dos particulares a quem foram confiados. Extrahidos em o mez de Março de 1860》（可译为《截至本记录日期仍受委托给私人照管的所有自由非洲人：1860年3月摘编》）。该111页手写记名登记册，记录了1860年初旅居巴西的849名私人特许照管人（private concessionaires，亦称为“监护人”）与1342名自由非洲人（Free Africans，亦称emancipados或“获释非洲人”）。手稿记载了1834年至1849年间获释、且仍在里约热内卢、邻近的尼泰罗伊及内陆城镇的私人家庭中接受学徒监管的自由非洲人。本登记册列明了特许照管人的全名、住址，以及处于强制监护下的非洲人的名与原籍国；若涉及多名非洲人，则分别标注其相关信息。额外转录的信息还包括自初始委托起的年限，以及特许照管人向巴西政府缴纳的年度费用（标注为“薪资”），该款项将被留存，用于抵扣该非洲人最终“再出口”所需的相关成本。