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Maarten Janssen, 2014-
Author(s) | Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro |
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Addressee(s) | João Maria Botão |
In English | Extortion letter from Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro, under the alias of Anacleto Vila Real, to João Maria Botão. The author promises to burn everything belonging to the addressee unless he sends a sum of money to a prisoner in Lisbon. In the first quarter of the 19th century, extortion letters became a very typical practice. Authors threatened rich addressees with all sorts of ruinous events in the case they didn't hand in a certain amount of money. The frequentness of this practice was possible also because of the political and social turmoil associated with these first years of Liberalism. |
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