Vale expandido: contrabando negreiro e a construção de uma dinâmica política nacional no Império do Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Parron, Tâmis
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: El Youssef, Alain, Estefanes, Bruno Fabris
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Almanack (Guarulhos)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/alm/article/view/13292
• topic: tráfico negreiro; política imperial; eleições; slave trade; politics in Brazil; elections

This essay analyses connections between State and Society in nineteenthcenturyBrazil, taking as a case study the close relations between the politicaldefense of the illegal slave trade and the making of a political-electoralstructure on a national level, in the 1830s and 1840s. In its first section,it discusses studies that have approached the problem of the relationsbetween State and Society in imperial Brazil and are still influential on thehistoriographical researches. Then, it points out how the political defense ofthe illegal slave trade cemented alliances between parliamentarian leaders ofthe Brazilian Center-South region and the slave-owners of the Paraíba Valley.In the third section, it suggests that those very same parliamentary leadersbuilt up a political-electoral national structure through the reform of theCode of Criminal Procedure, whose effects upon the workings of the BrazilianState were strongly felt throughout the nineteenth century. As a conclusion,this essay presents the actions of Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, thenprovincial president of Rio de Janeiro, against the rebellions of 1842 as theepitome of the historical processes discussed above.