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Maarten Janssen, 2014-
Autor(es) | Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro |
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Destinatário(s) | Fernando Maria de Sousa Coutinho Castelo Branco e Meneses |
In English | Extortion letter from Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro, under the alias of António Chuço, to the marquis of Borba, a member of the government. The authors threatens the addressee with violence unless he pays 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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