Administrative reorganization in Serro Frio district: Conflicts and social ascension of a judge in the service of the king, José Pinto de Morais Bacelar (1749-1779).
colonial administration, district ombudsman's office, Serro Frio district.
MOREIRA, Joelmir Cabral. Administrative reorganization in Serro Frio district: Conflicts and social ascension of a judge in the service of the king, José Pinto de Morais Bacelar (1749-1779). 2018. Dissertation (Master in History) Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, 2018.
This work aims to analyze aspects of the trajectory of José Pinto de Morais Bacelar in the legal-administrative career. More specifically, we aspire to understand Bacelar's action as an ombudsman in Serro Frio district, captaincy of Minas Gerais, during the period of the third diamond mining contract, highlighting its power relations, interactions and conflicts at a time of administrative reorganization in the district. Therefore, the idea was to analyze the strategies devised and the resources available for José Pinto de Morais Bacelar to be seen and remain as a "quality man" in the Old Regime society. We also aspire to understand the guiding value of his actions, in other words, what guided his search, as well as the benefits and gains that the career in the judiciary could provide, in the case of this study, translates into the services rendered to the Portuguese Crown.