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The trajectory of the Portuguese Protestant migration in the 19th and 20th centuries. A different way of questioning Ethics and Economy throughout economic institutions building.

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This paper is based on a case study. It consists of a historical analysis of the relation between economy, migration and Protestantism from English and Scottish communities settled in Madeira during the 19 th century, the Rev.d Lowe, Dr. KalIey and Sister Wilson cases, and of the migration of peasants from Madeira to the British West Indies, British Guiana, Brazil, USA (Illinois, Massachusetts, California, Hawaii) and Canada (Halifax, Nova Scotia) in the middle of 19 th century and early 20 th century, and their economic institution building, mainly of ministerial office and of social welfare work.
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XIV INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC HISTORY CONGRESS
Helsinki, Finland, 21 to 25 August 2006
1. De Vasconcelos Nogueira, António
University of Aveiro, Portugal
2. Paper
The Trajectory of the Portuguese Protestant Migration in the 19th and 20th centuries. A
different way of questioning Ethics and Economy throughout economic institution
building.
3. Abstract
This paper is based on a case study. It consists of a historical analysis of the relation
between economy, migration and Protestantism from English and Scottish communities
settled in Madeira during the 19th century, the Rev.d Lowe, Dr. KalIey and “Sister”
Wilson cases, and of the migration of peasants from Madeira to the British West Indies,
British Guiana, Brazil, USA (Illinois, Massachusetts, California, Hawaii) and Canada
(Halifax, Nova Scotia) in the middle of 19th century and early 20th century, and their
economic institution building, mainly of ministerial office and of social welfare work.
1. Trajectory of the migration of Portuguese Protestants
The Portuguese migration during the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th
centuries is based on political and economic reasons. It regards the Atlantic and Pacific
economies.
There were approximately 2,000 Portuguese individuals (including their families and
descendants) from Madeira linked to the Portuguese Protestants
1
.
Their migration is related to the settlement of the British community in Madeira
2
, to the
Madeira wine trade as well as the sugar trade in the British West lndies
3
, British
Guiana
4
, and in Hawaii
5
. The migration occurs more in families than by individuals.
This case meets other similar cases such as the “Potato Famine” in Ireland, the
Portuguese, Irish, and Italian migration, the economical crisis in agriculture.
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Purves, c.1940: 43; Testa, 1963: 63-64; Pe. Silva, 1984, vol. 3: 158; Ferreira, 1994: 14-17; 21; 23; 63-
64; Vieira, 1990: 45.
2
Koebel, 1909: 75-81; Purves, c.1940: 23; 26; 29; 35; Clode, 1952: 96-340; Gregory, 1988; Nash, 1990.
3
Menezes, 1849, vol.1: 8-14; 69; 102; vol.3: 217; Blackburn, 1860: 188; Ciski, 1975: III; 12; 16; 18; 63-
64; 71; table 3, 73-74Higgs, 1990: 17.
4
Blackburn, 1860: 178; Laurenth, 1958.
5
Pap, 1949: 248, nota 32; Santos, 1996: 12-13; Silva, 1996: 19; 70; 77; 478; Spranger, 2001: 160-61.
2
There are three migratory waves 1.st in the 1840’s. 2.nd in the 1850’s. 3.rd in the
1890’s and two different trajectories: the pastoral leadership, and the Portuguese
Protestant exiles and migrants.
There are different economic and existential projects because there are networks, a
labour market, opportunities, workmanship, agents, and middlemen.
2. The Lowe, Kalley, and Wilson cases in Madeira
Theses cases highlight aspects of religious and Political intolerance with some English
and Scottish merchants, the British Chaplaincy in Madeira, and the evangelistic work
among the Portuguese peasants in Madeira, proved by the cases of Rev.d Richard
Thomas Lowe
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, linked to the English Church, Becco Chapel, and Oxford Movement in
Madeira, Dr. Robert Reid Kalley
7
, formerly linked to the Scots Kirk in Madeira, then
pioneer missionary to Madeira and Brazil, and by ‘Sister” Mary Jane Wilson
8
, formerly
an Anglican British subject, who then became a Franciscan nun working in Madeira.
3. A different way of questioning Ethics and Economy throughout economic
institution building
This case reports to Evangelism from 1840’s to 1950-60’s. It consists of the preaching
of the Gospel. It values the emotional aspects, the spontaneity, the living of faith as an
individual and in community. It is characterized by independent and itinerant
evangelisation directed at masses that migrate from the country fields to towns and
cities. Proselytism is done by word of mouth and approximation, based on medical care,
pastoral care and educational care, on domestic worship, on meetings, open-air schools,
and social welfare work.
The Lowe, Kalley and Wilson cases are different. There are internal (in Madeira and in
Portugal mainland) and external consequences (in Great Britain and USA) because
these different cases give origin to the schism and the scandal in Madeira. The schism
brings about three congregations: Presbyterian, Anglican, and a pro-Roman Catholic
Anglican Chapel linked to the Oxford Movement.
The British community is made up of English and Scottish (clans) merchants who did
business in Madeira wines, embroideries, tourism and hotel services (e.g. Reid’s Hotel).
The agriculture crisis grape-mildew [oidium] and vine pest [phylloxera] in Madeira, in
the second half of the 19th century, coincides with the appearance of other tourist
markets in Europe, hot springs in Baden, Vichy, other cities in Italy, in Malta, in the
Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, the Holy Land), in Egypt too.
Dr. Kalley is isolated, pursued and violently expelled from the Madeira Island with the
Madeira peasants. Rev.d Lowe is a supporter of the Oxford Movement which was pro-
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Lowe, 1846; 1848; The British Chaplancy, Madeira. 1846; Gainsborough, 1847; Nash, 1990.
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Kalley, 1844ª; 1844b; 1845; 1847ª; 1847b. Also: Tate, 1847; Norton, 1849; Hewitson, 1851; Blackburn,
1860; Gama, 1896.
8
Amorim, 1975; Ribeiro, 1989.
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Roman Catholic, and remained so for a long period. Rev.d Lowe, more than Dr. Kalley,
divides the community. For different reasons the same happened with “Sister” Wilson.
Rev.d Lowe’s connections and relationships were with Christ’s College, Cambridge,
with the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and with Oxford Movement. Rev.d Lowe’s
friendship with Portuguese Baron of Castello de Paiva results in scientific publishing
about fauna/flora species in Madeira and Canary Islands. Rev.d Lowe is keen on the
species in Cape Verde. Rev.d Lowe offers his species collection to the Royal Garden in
Kew, London, and to the British Museum of Natural History, London.
Dr. Kalley’s originality lays on his medical care, pastoral care, and monitorial system of
education, forthcoming Evangelism and word of mouth. Subsequently and influenced
by Dr. Kalley, there are Mrs. Ellen Roughton and Mr. Archibald Turner, both in
Lisbon
9
, Mrs. Fletcher
10
and the Bros. Cassels in Oporto and in Gaia
11
. Dr. Kalley’s
second wife, Sarah, contributed towards the first Portuguese Protestant hymn-book
12
.
The Portuguese immigrants from Madeira are not pioneers in America. The Portuguese
Jews in 17th century exiled themselves and immigrated before them
13
. They were the
commercial and financial élite. The Protestants from Madeira were illiterate and
deprived peasants. Kalley’s evangelistic work was circumscribed. It gave rise to various
Presbyterian churches (in Madeira, the Azores, Portugal mainland, in the British West
Indies, in Illinois, USA), to other Evangelic churches (in Lewell, Massachusetts, in
Hawaii, USA), and to Congregational churches (in Brazil and in Portugal mainland).
In a nutshell: From historical references to the economic institution building
This case about Portuguese Protestant migration has economic and confessional
motivation
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. It has continuous and non-linked cases in space and time. There are
leaderships and doctrines with different bearings. The activities of the British
community of residents in Madeira, and in connection with other destinations through
the migration of Portuguese from Madeira and the mainland, implies a flow of ideas,
controversy, doctrines that originate schisms, Evangelism, scientific research,
disclosure, and political crisis, e.g. A. L. Cunha, who was a teacher in Lyceu do
Funchal, published mainly Kalley’s writings. He stood up for the defence of Dr. Kalley
vs Bernardo Francisco Lobato Machado, who published Rev.d Lowe’s writings.
The cases of Rev.d Lowe, Dr. Kalley, and “Sister” Mary Wilson highlight the English
merchants vs Scottish (clans of) merchants interests regarding the falling wine market
and business in Madeira.
9
Moreira, 1958: nota1, 156-57.
10
Rocha, 1946, vol. 3: 181; Forsyth, 1988: 169-70.
11
Cassels, 1908; Peixoto, 2001
12
Kalley et al., 1888²; 1899³.
13
Poage, 1925: 101-35; Bigelow, 1931: 757-67; Arbell, 2002.
14
Queirós, 1874, reed. 1979: 101; Testa, 1963: 31-32; 74; 145, nota 23; Forsyth, 1988: 81; Dinnerstein et
al., 1999: 39.
4
In the second half of the 19th century other destinations come up, e.g. Malta, which was
a Protestant typographical centre, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.
The Geographic and Archeological studies in Palestine linked to the Royal Geographic
Society (founded in 1830), and to The Palestine Exploration Fund, (founded in 1865).
Dr. Kalley’s visits to Palestine are related to these activities and disclosures.
The Portuguese exiles and immigrants were destitute peasants, small ruined landowners.
This migration of Portuguese Protestants from Madeira has no return, neither does it
know other migratory flows. They completely assimilated themselves and if there were
cases of individual success, this resulted from the melting pot and from individual
entrepreneurship, not from the Portuguese Protestant group as such.
There are different churches of Presbyterian denomination founded by Dr. Kalley, the
Portuguese Protestant exiles and immigrants in Madeira, in Trinidad, and in Illinois.
There are also churches of Congregational denomination in Brazil
15
and Portugal
mainland
16
, and two chapels in Honululu and Hilo, Hawaii, of Evangelic denomination.
This case gave an outstanding input to Protestant missions to the Portuguese colonies in
Africa, e.g. José Lomellino, Kalley’s follower, who was judged and supposed to be de-
ported to Luanda, Angola, where he should meet David Livinsgtone in Nov. 1853-
earlier months of 1854
17
. However his sojourn did not take place since he fled from
Madeira to Trinidad in the British West Indies. Unfolding Protestants and Evangelic
missions occurred later (l880-96) and played an important role in (per)forming the new
leadership of African nationalist movements against the Portuguese colonial domination
in Africa
18
.
However, Dr. Kalley’s movement is circumscribed. The Portuguese Protestant exiles
and economic immigrants were few in number, all about 2,000 individuals. There were
no élites among them. These Portuguese Protestants were not the pioneers of the
Midwest, but they voted on the Republican Party
19
.
Later on, in the 1890’s and following, they also took part in the Trade and Labour
Union movements (Jos. Capps & Sons Woolen Mills Inc.)
20
, as well as in other
Brotherhood organizations (International Brotherhood of Firemen & Oilers)
21
, Free
Mason Lodges (both of Scottish and York Rite, called Grand Lodge of Illinois, Ansar
Temple, or Modern Woodmen of America) and social welfare work through Red Cross,
Morgan County Tuberculosis Association, Morgan County Polio Foundation as well as
Salvation Army
22
.
15
Filho, 1997; Mendonça, 1998; César, 2000; Nassif Cardoso, 2002.
16
Cardoso, 1975; 1998; Santos, 2000, t. xii: 37-64; 2001, vol.4: 75-85; Nogueira, 2004: 81-94.
17
Livingstone, 1913; 1961.
18
Gonçalves, 1960; Guichard, 1995; 1998; Lusotopie, 1998.
19
Noll (ed.), 2001: 297.
20
Morgan County, Illinois. 1968: 220.
21
Morgan County, Illinois. 1968: 224-25.
22
Morgan County, Illinois. 1968: 210.
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Was there, on behalf of these Portuguese Protestant exiles and immigrants, a successful
strategy?
American names and surnames were given. Marriages within and out of the Portuguese
Protestant group were celebrated. Some became farmers, and within the USA migrated
from lllinois to California, to Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and from Hawaii to
California.
There was a relationship between the Portuguese Protestant immigrants with Abraham
Lincoln, who made them money loans with usury
23
. The assassination of Lincoln was a
conspiracy which involved João M. Celestino, another Madeira native, but with no
relation with the Protestant group.
John dos Passos (1896-1970), in literature, author of Manhatten Transfert (1925), who
joined Ernst Hemingway (1899-1961) in supporting the Republicans during the Spanish
Civil War (1936-39).
Mary Astor (otherwise Lucille Vasconcellos Langhanke) was a movie star, who earned
an Academy Award for the best secondary actress in 1941
24
.
Sam Mendes (1965-…) is director-filmography. The movie American Beauty earned 5
Academy Awards.
About their migrant and confessional trajectories, some formerly Portuguese
Presbyterian families and individuaIs changed to the Anglican, Methodist, and Baptist
churches, both in Trinidad, British West Indies, and in Illinois, USA
25
.
In Jacksonville and in Springfield, Illinois, there were four divisions of the Portuguese
Presbyterian churches
26
. The Trinidad School (in Jacksonville) was changed into a shed
with no specific use in the 1930’s.
FormerIy Portuguese Evangelic chapels (founded in Honolulu and in Hilo) were
alienated for real estate investment: e.g. to build a hotel in Honululu, in 1944, and in
Springfield, Illinois, in 1966, for a parking lot for St. John‘s Hospital, which is a Roman
Catholic institution.
All together, these Portuguese Protestants did not care much about their educational
background. For in the period of 1845-1903, upon the Alumnae Catalogue for Young
Women, Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Illinois, there were only 5 admissions, 3 of them
were the daughters of the Portuguese Presbyterian minister Emmanuel Pires
27
.
23
Pap, 1949: 246-47, nota 17; Fiore, 1971: 154; Fernandes, 2004: 197-98.
24
Fernandes, 2004: 151-52.
25
Hewitson, 1851: 254; Ferreira, 1994: 53; 69; 124, nota 1, nota 5; Rawlins, 2002: 6-7; 11-12.
26
The History of Presbyterianism (…), 1967; Suttles, 1997: 211-22.
27
Warren et al., 2001: 318-19.
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