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the electoral registration of 1876 in the villages of Corrente and Parnaguá under the aegis of the Terço Law

Abstract

In 1876, in the villages of Corrente and Parnaguá, in the interior of Piauí, electoral enlistment was carried out in obedience to decrees 2.675/1875 and 6.097/1876, the referred minutes or enlistment books are in the Public Archive of Piauí, and are subsidies important for the study of the society of the time. This article focuses on the respective lists, which are valuable documents for understanding the political and economic structure and local society, especially in comparison with other documents, such as inventories and the local political bibliography. This time, it was possible to verify fraud in the enlistment, notably the inclusion of children and adolescents, duplicity of electoral domicile, in addition to fraud, from the income statement it is possible to detect the concentration of capital in the hands of a few families that, until the end of the 19th century, local power was in their hands as true oligarchy.