Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro
Campos Vergueiro | |
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| Regent of the Empire of Brazil | |
| In office 7 April 1831 – 3 May 1831 Serving with Lima e Silva, Carneiro de Campos | |
| Monarch | Pedro II |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Permanent Triumviral Regency (Portuguese: Regência Trina Permanente) |
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 22 May 1847 – 1 January 1848 | |
| Preceded by | Caetano Maria Lopes Gama |
| Succeeded by | Saturnino de Sousa e Oliveira |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 December 1778 |
| Died | 17 July 1859 (aged 80) |
| Spouse | Maria Angélica de Vasconcellos |
| Occupation | Politician; landowner |
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Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro, better known as Senator Vergueiro (Portuguese: Senador Vergueiro) (20 December 1778 – 17 September 1859), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian coffee farmer and politician and slave trader. He was a pioneer in the implementation of a free workforce, as opposed to slavery, in Brazil by bringing the first European immigrants to work in the Ibicaba farm, which he owned. The contract was prepared by Vergueiro himself, establishing ownership of the production and other measures, mostly of an exploitive nature. Faced with this, the immigrants working in Vergueiro's main property, the Ibicaba farm, revolted under the guidance of Thomas Davatz (de), a Swiss immigrant and religious leader, who instigated the immigrant workers to grow their ambition to become small or medium-sized landowners, as they imagined they would be when they had left Europe.