Thiago Krause

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Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.

Sepan quantos esta Carta vieren Como en diez y nueue dias del mes de Abril de mill seyscientos y beynte y siete años En presencia de mi Giles vanden bossche escri.no pu.o por su mag.d El rey nro señor En esta ciudad de Anberes del ducado de brabante y de los testigos deyuso escritos Parescieron presentes los sres fran.co lopez franco y manuel el nunez deuora residentes En esta ciudad de Anberes, a los cuales doy fey Conosco y dixeron que biniendo de lixa la nao nombrada la charidad maestre Miguel Couytenhol cargada de mercaderias y haziendo su viaje para la ciudad de hamburgo fue tomada de nauios de la armada de su mag.d cat.ca y trayda a Ostende y que los dhos comparecientes como consules que fueron el año pasado de la nacion de portugal residen- te En esta ciudad de Anberes procuraron la libertad de las mercaderias cargadas En dha nao y que ademas de los fletes y aueria y gastos ordinarios se hizieron de gastos Extraordinarios y aueria gruessa de las mercaderias siguientes assaber Sobre ocho caxas de açucar, siete de mascabado y vna de panela marcadas de la Maria de fuera cargadas por Alvaro da silueyra y fran.co botelho chacon a razon de nueue florines de a beynte placas cada florin por cada caxa de açucar Ytem sobre seys bariles de conseruas marcados de la Soha marca de fuera cargados por nuño aluarez a razon de cinco florines por cada baril Yten sobre un baril de lacre marcado de la dha marca de fuera cargado por el dho nuño aluarez nueue florines
Cover of Isadora Mota's book - Freedom's Horizon - Black Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Gemini (AI Studio) transcription of a manuscript page posted by Leon.
Manuscript letter from 1703.
Promotional poster from Wayne State University’s Department of History for a talk titled “Slavery, Museums, and Public History in Brazil.” The design is black, green, and gold, with blue-toned museum imagery across the top and a large headshot of the speaker in the lower right. Event details: April 6, 2026, at 2:00 PM, room 3339 FAB, Faculty Administration Building. Speaker: Dr. Keila Grinberg. The poster describes her as a Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in slavery and race in the Atlantic World, and notes recent exhibitions at the National Museum for African-American History and Brazil’s Museu Historico Nacional.
Screenshot of a manuscript transcription workspace, Leo. In the center is a grayscale image of a handwritten French document page from an ANOM file, displayed in a viewer with zoom controls. A left sidebar labeled “Metadata” and “Images” lists related JPG files, with page 455 selected and nearby pages 448 to 456 visible. The metadata panel identifies the item as “COL C9 A 3 - Tabac Saint Domingue, Mentions Brazil,” dated 1696-01-28. On the right, a transcription panel labeled “Gemini 3 Flash” and “Corrected” shows French text discussing tobacco from Brazil, duties of entry and exit, Portugal, merchants, and Saint-Domingue.
Screenshot of a phone in dark mode showing a ChatGPT conversation. The reply says it found the expected enclosure on image 454 of 882 in a digitized ANOM correspondence volume and identifies the heading as “Réponse des Négocians de la Rochelle,” dated 1696. Below the text is an embedded browser screenshot of the archive viewer displaying a handwritten manuscript page, with the page counter set to 454/882 and a sidebar listing archival information for “Correspondance générale de M. Du Casse, gouverneur,” dated 1694–1697.
Screenshot of a report titled “104CP_26 Archival Review Report.” The left page gives metadata and an executive summary stating that 334 pages were reviewed and 14 flagged. The summary describes the volume as mostly Portugal-centered diplomatic material, with a smaller cluster of pages relevant to Brazil, tobacco, sugar, and trade. The right page lists flagged images with short summaries and historian notes.
Haskell For God, King, and People Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia UNC PRESS McDonnell THE POLITICS OF WAR Race, Class, & Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia BULLOCK Strangers within the Realm Bernard Bailyn Philip D. Morgan Revolutionary Brotherhood JOHN FREDERICK MARTIN DA 16 • S92 1991 Institute CHAPEL m PROFITS IN THE WILDERNESS HC 107 .A1IM18 1991 copy 2 Institute An ANXIOUS PURSUIT JOYCE E. CHAPLIN 265 . V8M39 2007 INSTITUTE CHAPEL HILL Chapel Hill ALAN TAYLOR A CONTINENTAL HISTORY, 1850-1873 AMERICAN CIVIL WARS NORTON
(Chart 1: “Sugar Prices at Amsterdam, 1609–1763”): Line chart of annual average sugar prices in Amsterdam (y-axis: groten per pound; x-axis: years 1609–1763) for multiple origins and grades: Brazil White (highest series), São Tomé, Barbados, Caribbean & Surinamese aggregate, Martinique, Saint-Domingue, and dashed “powder/refined” series (Martinique Powder, Saint-Domingue Powder, East Indian Powder). Brazil White is very high and volatile in the 1620s–1650s (peaks above 30 groten), then reappears lower (roughly 9–13) in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; raw Caribbean series cluster mostly around 4–9 groten when present, while powder/refined series sit above the raw lines and rise sharply in the 1750s–1760s. Shaded background bands mark major conflict periods (Dutch Brazil 1630–54; Nine Years’ War 1689–97; War of Spanish Succession 1702–13; War of Austrian Succession 1744–48; Seven Years’ War 1756–63), and line breaks indicate years with no surviving quotations.
Line chart of Amsterdam tobacco prices, 1673–1763. X-axis: year; Y-axis: price (stuivers per pound). Brazilian tobacco (blue circles, solid line) is consistently higher and more volatile than Virginian tobacco (orange triangles, dashed line): brief near-parity in the late 1690s and early 1710s, a sharp Brazilian spike around 1708–1721 (peaking near 17–18), then a sustained mid-century premium as Virginia declines toward ~4 while Brazil stays mostly ~8–12.