Figures
1.1Slaveholding colonos: Fazenda Pombal in Colônia Leopoldina, c. 1820s–early 1830s
2.1Roughshod novelty: Warehouse storage area in Praia Grande (present-day Niterói)
4.1Projected land plots and canal works in Petrópolis (1846)
7.2The North America, one of USBM’s state-of-the-art steamers
7.3Useful exemplars: A model of a Cuban arrendamiento contract furnished by Goicuria
8.2The coolie question as political weapon: Sinimbú rechristened Chimnimbú