Abstract
S TUDIES OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD ill Spanish America long have emphasized tlle non-participation of the locally born in major economic, political, and social institutions of the colonies.1 Historians of colonial Brazil also have accepted this hypothesis and have claimed that the exclusion of native-born Brazilians from positions of power within major colonial institutions resulted in conflict between them and inhabitants of Brazil born in Portugal. The birthplace factor has often been thought to have created hostile divisions witlhin the society of tlhe late colonial period, and to have played a vital role in the development of the desire for independence.2 Preliminary study of the composition of the Bahian elite in the
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