Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Guerra dos Farrapos, a mais longa revolta republicana enfrentada pelo Império do Brasil

2022; Volume: 41; Issue: 164 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4322/principios.2675-6609.2022.164.008

2675-6609

Raul K. M. Carrion,

Literature, Culture, and Criticism

This article have as a major aim to identify the social, economic and political roots of the Farroupilha Revolution -which for more than nine years faced the almighty Empire of Brazil -, its relationship with the other revolts occurred in that period, including the early years of the reign of Pedro II, its republican and federative traits, the meaning of its "separatism", the participation of blacks, indians and poor white people, the limits of its "abolitionism", the carnage of the Black Lancers on the eve of peace treatise and the so-called Peace of Ponche Verde.In this study, we use the method of historical and dialectical materialism.