Uma certa tradição rebelde

Abstract

In the article, we consider the rebellious slave tradition associated with the political struggles of the first half of the 19th century as having three diferent moments. Firstly, in the 1820s, when there was a political break with Portugal; secondly, during the regency period in the 1830s, amid the uncertainties surrounding the process of independence and the formation of the National State with a focus on the Cabanagem; and, thirdly, during the consolidation of the independence process between 1840 and 1850, with the end of the slave trade and the preservation of slavery under conservative hegemony. This, to a large extent, is believed to have undermined the rebellious slave tradition.