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The capital maranhense, remembered today by the huge row of houses of Portuguese architecture, in the beginning sheltered barely hollow of wood, straw and a landscape barely it concealed. Here it stayed the village of Upaon-Açu, where the Indians tupinambás - between 200 and 600, second French chroniclers - lived of the agriculture of subsistence (small plantations of manioc and sweet potato) and of the offerings of the nature, hunting, fishing, collecting fruits. São Luis
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In 1535, the division of the country in hereditary captainships gave to the treasurer João de Barros to first opportunity of colonize the region.
In The decade of 1550 was founded the city of Nazaré, probably where today is São Luís, that finished being abandoned due to the resistance of the Indians and the difficulty of access to the island.
Daniel La Touche, known as Mister of Ravardière, accompanied of around 500 men, arrived to the region in 1612 for found the France Equinocial and carry out the French dream of be installed in the region of the tropics. A mass prayed by capuchinos and the construction of a fortress marked the date of foundation of the new city: 8 of September. Soon they were allied to the Indians, that were faithful companions in the battle against Portugueses coming of Pernambuco determined it regain the territory, what ended up happen some years afterwards.
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It commanded by Alexandre of Moor, the Portuguese troop expelled the French in 1615 and Jerônimo de Albuquerque was noticeable for command the city. Of the founders remained the name of São Luis, a homage to the French king Luís XIII strangely maintained by the Portuguese.
Açoirianos arrived in the city in 1620 and the plantation of the cane for output of sugar and spirit became then to main economic activity in the region. The Indians were used like labor in the farming. The output was small during all the century. XVII and, as practically did not circulate money in the region, the excesses were changes by products coming from Pará, Amazonas and Portugal. Rolls of cloth were one of the objects valued in the epoch, being evident including in the testaments of the you wealthier.
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In the second half of the century XVIII, due to War of the Secession, the United States interrupt his output of cotton and open space for that the Maranhão equal it supply the raw material sued by the England. In 1755 it is founded the Company General of the Commerce of the Grain Stop and the port of São Luis earns huge movement of arrival and exit of products. With the prohibition of the use of native slaves and the increase of the plantations, the number of black slaves a lot increase.
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The big commercial stream of cotton, that it arrived do of the São Luis to third more populous city of the country (behind barely of the Rio de Janeiro and Salvador), entered in decadence in the end of the century XIX, due to the recuperation of the North American output and the abolition of the slavery. The agricultural output was gradually being supplanted by the industry textile that, beyond raw material, found labor and market consumer in the region. To new activity collaborated for the geographical expansion of the city and sprouting of new neighborhoods in the periphery.
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Thiago
Juscelino
Gabriel
Fred
Paulo
Adriano
Amaro