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Adrião Acácio da Silveira Pinto

Adrião Acácio da Silveira Pinto
Governor of Macau
In office
22 February 1837 – 3 October 1843
Preceded byBernardo José de Sousa Soares Andrea
Succeeded byJosé Gregório Pegado
Governor of Angola
In office
1848–1851
Preceded byPedro Alexandrino da Cunha
Succeeded byAntónio Sérgio de Sousa
Personal details
Died1868
NationalityPortuguese
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese邊度
Simplified Chinese边度
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBiān Dù
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingbin1 dou6

Adrião Acácio da Silveira Pinto (born late 18th century – died 1868) served as a staff officer (Captain, later Lieutenant-General) during Liberal Wars in the Duke of Terceira's army which landed in the Algarve and marched north to Lisbon in 1833.[1] Later he was appointed to be a Portuguese colonial administrator who held the position of Governor of Macau between 1837 and 1843. During the Opium Wars, fearing Chinese reprisals he requested the British community to leave Macau. The British sailed off to Hong Kong on August 1839.[2][3] Later he was Governor-General of the Province of Angola between 1848 and 1851.[1] As a governor of Angola, Pinto acknowledged that enslaved individuals, particularly Black Africans, had a natural inclination to escape slavery, and this was partly attributed to slave owners using them as itinerant traders in the interior regions (sertões) of Angola, which provided ample opportunities for escape.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Ron B. Thomson (11 September 2014). The Concession of Évora Monte: The Failure of Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Portugal. Lexington Books. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-7391-9332-7.
  2. ^ Philippe Pons (2002). Macao. Reaktion Books. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-1-86189-136-5.
  3. ^ Geoffrey C. Gunn (1996). Encountering Macau: A Portuguese City-State on the Periphery of China, 1557-1999. Westview Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-8133-8970-7.
  4. ^ Ferreira, Roquinaldo. "Slave flights and runaway communities in Angola (17th-19th centuries)." Anos 90 21.40 (2014): 65-90.
Political offices Preceded byBernardo José de Sousa Soares Andrea Governor of Macau 1837–1843 Succeeded byJosé Gregório Pegado Preceded byPedro Alexandrino da Cunha Governor of Angola 1848–1851 Succeeded byAntónio Sérgio de Sousa


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