In the meridian areas of Portuguese America there was, by the endof the 18th century, a process of mutual interest between freed slaves and white people. Having a slave contingent not only small but recent, within the population of these areas there was a very high proportion of free and freed non-whites.Here it will be studied patterns of where colored freemenhave settled down in Castro and Guaratuba (at this moment Paraná). This is strategical to understand the relationship between the Negroes of the hinterland and the agrarian frontier. Castro and Guaratuba had decisive similarities and differences when comprehending processes with bigger purposes. Guaratuba was an isolated coast village while in Castro there was the oldest town and it had the most intense relation with the internal market although was founded also in the late 18th century.
Freed people; colored freemen; agrarian frontier; Paraná; economy and society
