A “big Hispano-Lusitanian family”: Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira and the project for the Confederation of Independent Nations (1821 – 1822).

• Autor(a) principal: Acruche, Hevelly Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/44860
• topic: Brasil; Independências; América Latina; Confederação das Nações; História.; Brazil; Independences; Latin America; Confederation of Nations; African American History

In this article, we intend to treat about the project of a Confederation or Society of Independent Nations involving the newly created Hispanic-American republics, of Haiti, of the United States and of Greece, as well as the monarchy of Portugal, on the eve of the independence of Brazil (1821 -1822). Authored by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and War of d. João VI, Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira (1769 – 1846), the institutionalization of a Confederation of Nations can be seen as a strategy to maintain relations between the Portuguese crown and Brazil after the king's return to Portugal in 1821. We intend to explore the nuances of this project based on manuscripts collected by the Venezuelan diplomat D. Simón Planas-Suárez when he was in Lisbon in the first decades of the 20th century. We will also analyze Manuel de Oliveira Lima's (1867-1928) reading about the project. Although it has not gone further, the Confederation project allows us to nuance the relationship efforts between the Portuguese-Brazilian Empire and neighboring countries, offering an alternative beyond the international cooperation projects conceived by Simón Bolívar (1783-1830). Furthermore, we intend to point out that discourses of unity in the context of independence were resumed in the light of the post-World War I period (1914 – 1918) and the establishment of the League of Nations.