La Republicanismo e Independência do Brasil na “Conspiração Socialista na Bahia em 1798” de Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen

Abstract

The struggles for the political independence of Brazil in the various provinces and the intense political debate at the time made it clear that a project for a republican nation was a strong and constant historical possibility, so that the republicanisms mobilized in various social movements since the end of the 18th century were constantly criminalized in various spheres by politics d. Peter I and d. Peter II. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the way in which this criminalization occurred in the process of writing the story of Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen on the Bahia Conjuration of 1798, explaining that only men from the lowest sectors of that society were adept at the project of a republican nation, which is why the author praised in his work how the Portuguese crown removed these sectors from the world of politics with the exemplary punishment of the defendants of the Conjuração Baiana, hanged and quartered in a public square in 1799.