The history of the Miriri mill

Abstract

This research analyzed the establishment of the Miriri mill during the period of colonial Brazilian history and its contribution to the formation of the Captaincy of Paraíba, given that the foundations of the Hereditary Captaincies were part of the entrepreneurial logic of the Portuguese Crown in the conquest of overseas territories. We sought to discuss the strategic importance of this engenho for the creation of the captaincies in the north of the colony. Furthermore, we can see that the plans to use the sugar cane mills on the banks of the main rivers in Paraíba were part of the commercial dynamics of the first centuries of the construction of the Captaincies for the occupation of the territory, and in this context the religious orders played a fundamental role in their implementation, which, in the case of the Miriri mill, the religious of São Bento played a leading role.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevenIIImulti2023-206