Figure 1.-- This family portrait was taken in Parnaguá, Piauí, north-eastern Brazil during 1912. It shows Colonel O'Donnell de Alencar abnd his impressive family. The Colonel is depicted with his wife and their nine children (from a teenage boy to a baby boy). The man at the back is presumbly an adult son. The HBC reader who probided this portrait tells us, "We can assume that the Colonel was a fazenda owner." This is a reaonable assumption. Piauí was a poor area of Brazil and well-to-fo people were likely land oeners. A Brazilian fazenda is a large plantation, comparable to the slave-based plantations of the Caribbean (sugar) and the United States (cotton). We have no information on the Colondel's fazenda, but the colonial and 19th century economy of Oiauí aas dominated by sugar and the plabtations there employed many African slaves.

This family portrait was taken in Parnaguá, Piauí, north-eastern Brazil during 1912. It shows Colonel O'Donnell de Alencar abnd his impressive family. The Colonel is depicted with his wife and their nine children (from a teenage boy to a baby boy). The man at the back is presumbly an adult son. The HBC reader who probided this portrait tells us, "We can assume that the Colonel was a fazenda owner." This is a reaonable assumption. Piauí was a poor area of Brazil and well-to-fo people were likely land oeners. A Brazilian fazenda is a large plantation, comparable to the slave-based plantations of the Caribbean (sugar) and the United States (cotton). We have no information on the Colondel's fazenda, but the colonial and 19th century economy of Oiauí aas dominated by sugar and the plabtations there employed many African slaves. Slavery in Brazil was not abolished until tyhe lte-19th century (1888). Most of the Colonel's workers would hve been the decendents of the former slaves. The family's Irish nnme is interesting. We have no setails, but suspect it comes from the Irish noble dynasty of O'Donnell of Tyrconnell who left Ireland after the Battle of the Boyne--the Flight of the Earls. More recentyly Enrique José O'Donnell y Anatar, conde de La Bisbal (Henry Joseph O'Donnell) (1769–1834) was a Spanish general of Irish descent who fought in the Peninsular War. The family may have emigrated to Brazil.

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