Person landowner sugar planter settler
João Rodrigues Castelhano
landowner · sugar planter · settler
Genoese holder of sesmaria lands and sugar estates in Estreito da Calheta. In the early sixteenth century his slaves murdered his overseer, and five of them were hanged at Calheta.
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- Slaves — Landowner whose slaves murdered his overseer, five of them being hanged at Calheta in the early sixteenth century.
- Calheta (parish) — Genoese sugar-cane planter in Calheta whose slaves, after killing his overseer, were hanged in the town.
- Capital executions — Holder of sesmaria lands in Estreito da Calheta whose slaves killed his overseer and were hanged at Calheta.
- Estreito da Calheta (parish) — Genoese sugar-estate owner whose slaves were hanged at Calheta for killing an overseer.
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