Abstract
In the Captaincy of Pernambuco, in Portuguese America, sugar cane mill lords andsugar cane farmers managed throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesto secure successive extensions of a privilege guaranteeing that their their prop-erty would not be confiscated as payment for debt. To understand how this privilegehelped preserve the patrimony of the local nobility in the sugar-based economy of Per-nambuco, the origins of this privilege and debates surrounding it were analyzed. Re-search for this work involved accessing diverse historical sources, mainly the OverseasHistorical Archive, the Historical Documents collection of the National Library of Riode Janeiro and the Torre do Tombo National Archive in Lisbon
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