In the history of enterprise, Bárbara de Alencar is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Bárbara de Alencar as Brazilian merchant and revolutionary, Brazil's first political prey (1760-1832).
Bárbara de Alencar was born at Exu in 1760. Her recorded nationality is Brazil.
This was the age of chartered companies and long-distance trade, when a single voyage could make or ruin a house.
She worked as revolutionary, political activist and merchant.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Brazil shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Bárbara de Alencar died in 1832, aged 72. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
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