Bidspirit auction | WALTER (Jaime). HONÓRIO Pereira Barreto.

WALTER (Jaime). HONÓRIO Pereira Barreto. Bissau. 1947. - WALTER (Jaime) HONÓRIO Pereira Barreto . Biografia, Documentos, «Memória sobre o Estado Actual da Senegâmbia Portuguesa». Bissau: Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa, 1947. XX, 184, 48, [6] pp.: il.; 235 mm. Biography of Honório Pereira Barreto (Cacheu, 1813-1859), governor of Portuguese Guinea, by Jaime Walter. Born to a Guinean mother and a Cape Verdean father, Honório Barreto was several times captain-major of Cacheu and Bissau, standing out for his defense of the Portuguese presence in the region against French pressure and local resistance; his figure, widely celebrated by colonial historiography, would later be the subject of more critical readings regarding his role in the region's trade, including the slave trade. The volume brings together the biography and supporting documents, with facsimiles and a portrait of the subject, and reproduces, in the last forty-eight pages, the Memoir on the Current State of Portuguese Senegambia , which Barreto himself wrote in 1843 about the causes of the decline of Portuguese rule in the region and the means of making it prosper. Esteemed and rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate