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  Russell-Wood, A. J. R. "Ambivalent Authorities: The African and Afro-Brazilian Contribution to Local Governance in Colonial Brazil." The Americas 57, no. 1 (2000): 13-36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1007710.

Mattos, Hebe. ""Black Troops" and Hierarchies of Color in the Portuguese Atlantic World: The Case of Henrique Dias and His Black Regiment." Luso-Brazilian Review 45, no. 1 (2008): 6-29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30219057.