ABSTRACT
This study analyzes two members of the Chemont de Miranda family’s interactions in political quarrels in order to reconstruct the relationships between political power, social prestige and patrimony among sugar and rice mill owners in the Capim River basin. To understand the mill owners’ power, this article also reconstructs the presence of landowners in the region and their actions with one another. The article focuses on Aproaga mill, often reported by the press as a type of fortress that served as a place of dwelling and lodging as well as a prison and place of torture.
Keywords:
conflicts; politics; sugar mill; Aproaga; Capim River