The Cariri seen from below: Peasant movements in times of drought, famine, epidemic and recruitment in the First Kingdom

• Autor(a) principal: Irffi, Ana Sara Cortez
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Reis, Ana Isabel RPC
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Oficina do Historiador
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/oficinadohistoriador/article/view/37785
• topic: History of Brazil; Dry; Epidemic; Peasant movements; História do Brasil; Seca; Epidemia; Movimentos camponeses

This article studies the actions and experiences of the peasant population of Cariri Cearense, called cabra, highlighting that they must be seen as a rational reaction movement of a suffered population, in an environment often hostile by the occurrence of prolonged droughts and the smallpox epidemic in the face of struggle for access to land and better living conditions. Seen from below, the Cariri with green and fertile lands due to the presence of cane fields and Serra do Araripe, has become an arid environment from the perspective of peasants. The drought of the years 1825, 26 and 27 followed by famine and the smallpox epidemic and the recruitment for the Cisplatin war in 1828, hit the peasant populations of the region, whose political reaction was expressed in adherence to the Pinto Revolt Wood. In this process, the reaction of the peasants was used by the lordly elite to highlight them as dangerous, fanatical, anarchic groups.