{"id":2457,"date":"2026-01-21T10:42:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elivulu.org\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:58:35","slug":"jose-da-silva-maia-ferreira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elivulu.org\/en\/jose-da-silva-maia-ferreira\/","title":{"rendered":"JOS\u00c9 DA SILVA MAIA FERREIRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Nasceu em Luanda a 7 de Junho de 1827 e faleceu no Rio de Janeiro a 18 de Outubro de 1867.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Tinha o mesmo nome do av\u00f4, portugu\u00eas, e do pai, j\u00e1 nascido em Luanda, comerciante abastado e senhor de uma vasta frota de navios. A m\u00e3e, \u00c2ngela de Medeiros Matoso Maia, tamb\u00e9m luandense, descendia em linha directa de duas proeminentes casas senhoriais de Luanda: a dos Matoso de Andrade e a dos Botelho de Vasconcelos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Publicou em 1849 o volume de poesias,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Espontaneidades da minha alma. \u00c0s Senhoras Africanas<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">, considerado a primeira obra liter\u00e1ria publicada em Angola da autoria de um escritor angolense. Da primeira edi\u00e7\u00e3o desta obra, a \u00fanica c\u00f3pia que sobreviveu foi descoberta numa biblioteca p\u00fablica de New York na segunda metade do s\u00e9culo XX pelo professor da Universidade de Wisconsin, Gerald Moser. Em 2002 foi publicada uma reedi\u00e7\u00e3o em Portugal pela Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">A sua vida errante iniciou-se em 1834, com a queda do regime miguelista em Portugal, quando a fam\u00edlia foi obrigada a retirar-se para o Rio de Janeiro em virtude do progenitor, apoiante declarado daquele regime, ter perdido todos os seus lugares e privil\u00e9gios na administra\u00e7\u00e3o p\u00fablica de Angola. Maia Ferreira cumpriu o primeiro ciclo da sua forma\u00e7\u00e3o escolar no Rio de Janeiro at\u00e9 aos 10 anos. Em 1838, juntamente com o irm\u00e3o mais velho, Ant\u00f3nio da Silva Maia Ferreira, foi estudar para Lisboa onde permaneceu at\u00e9 1841, ap\u00f3s o que retornou ao Rio de Janeiro. Dali para diante iria dividir a sua traject\u00f3ria entre o Brasil, Angola e New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Regressou a Luanda em 1845 e, com apenas 18 anos, assumiu a fun\u00e7\u00e3o de secret\u00e1rio da Junta de Sa\u00fade e a de secret\u00e1rio da Comiss\u00e3o Mista Portuguesa e Brit\u00e2nica em 1846. Logo a seguir, a 18 de Outubro de 1847, retornou ao Rio de Janeiro em neg\u00f3cios. Em Setembro de 1849 ei-lo de novo em Angola, onde foi colocado em Benguela como tesoureiro da alf\u00e2ndega.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Em Abril de 1850 foi investido no cargo de oficial da Secretaria do governo da mesma capitania. O seu \u00faltimo emprego em Benguela foi o de escriv\u00e3o das descargas da alf\u00e2ndega, donde acabou por ser demitido em 1851 por [&#8230;]\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">por irregular comportamento e repreens\u00edvel conduta\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">[&#8230;] Este epis\u00f3dio pesou inquestionavelmente na sua decis\u00e3o de abalar para a Am\u00e9rica do Norte em Maio de 1851 por estar relacionado com os acontecimentos em Benguela: a revolta dos comerciantes europeus, deposi\u00e7\u00e3o do governador, coronel Francisco Tavares de Almeida, e com a exposi\u00e7\u00e3o dos seus amigos ao ferrete do desprezo p\u00fablico, por causa das convic\u00e7\u00f5es progressistas e o pendor anti-lusitano de todos eles. Ter\u00e3o sido rec\u00e7\u00e3o a New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Em 1852 foi admitido no Consulado-Geral como escriv\u00e3o. A 22 de Abril de 1856, por proposta do c\u00f4nsul-geral portugu\u00eas em New York, foi investido nos cargos de chanceler e vice-c\u00f4nsul pelo Minist\u00e9rio dos Neg\u00f3cios Estrangeiros portugu\u00eas em 16 de Mar\u00e7o de 1858.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">N\u00e3o mais retornaria ao seu ch\u00e3o natal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Bibliografia do autor:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Espontaneidades da minha alma. \u00c0s Senhoras Africanas (1849).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasceu em Luanda a 7 de Junho de 1827 e faleceu no Rio de Janeiro a 18 de Outubro de<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intro"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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