27 "The [Brazilian] population grew dizzyingly during the 18th and 19th centuries, the lands were appropriated by capital and the growing pauperization forced people to relocate continuously" (Moura, op. cit., p. 27). During the same period, southern Brazil, for instance, served as a magnet for the vast non-white free or freed population coming from other regions, who settled in rural areas to produce subsistence goods far from the Colony's general economic dynamic (cf. Lima, Carlos A. M. "Sertanejos e pessoas republicanas: livres de cor em Castro e Guaratuba – 1801-35." Estudos Afro-Asi?cos, vol. 24, no. 2, 2002, pp. 317-44). Maria Sylvia de Carvalho Franco (Homens livres na ordem escravocrata. S? Paulo: tica, 1976) shows how nomadism was typical to the poor populations under the slavocrat system,
