Francisco Teixeira de Miranda explained

Francisco Teixeira de Miranda, also known as Mirandinha, was a Brazilian slave trader in Luanda in the 1830s and 1840s. In 1843 he was convicted of having imported 47 captives via the sea.^[1] His collection of artworks and documents now form part of museum exhibits on the slave trade in the National Museum of Brazil.^{[2] [3]} From 1837 he employed the slave trader Arsénio Pompílio Pompeu de Carpo.

Notes and References

1. Richard Anderson, Henry B. Lovejoy Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade 2020 p242 "This took place in 1843 when Francisco Teixeira de Miranda, a Brazilian subject then residing in Luanda, was convicted of having imported 47 captives via the sea.34 The bestowment of cartas dealforria upon enslaved individuals seized ..".
2. https://museunacional.ufrj.br/see/docs/publicacoes/Kumbukumbu_Digital_2022_ONLINE.pdf "A coleção de Francisco Teixeira de Miranda, o traficante de escravos ... Mirandinha iniciou a carreira no tráfico ainda na juventude, o português Arsénio ..."
3. https://www.revistas.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/195841/189130 by M de Barcelos Agostinho · 2022 — "Francisco Teixeira de Miranda, traficante que viveu em Angola nas décadas de. 1830 e 1840 como representante de uma casa de comércio do Rio.."