REPUBLIC OF PASTOS BONS (1828)

the [cerebrinas] plots against the imperial system in Maranhão, at the end of the First Reign

Abstract

This article proposes a critical approach to the traces of republicanism in the province of Maranhão, specifically in the hinterland of Pastos Bons, at the end of the first reign. To this end, it proposes a reflection on the conception of the hinterland and the articulation of this region with Lisbon/Rio de Janeiro, in times of political transition in the Luso-Brazilian world, which here especially comprise the contestatory movements of 1817 and 1824. Still on connected spaces, it explores the repercussion of the episodes of Pastos Bons in the press of São Luís and the Court; and, in parliament, the approximations of the movement with the mutiny of Afogados, which
occurred in Pernambuco shortly after. Among the various public documents used, it takes as a
guiding thread the booklet “Um processo de jornalismo à época da Independência”, published by
the National Archive in 1917, which exposes the animosities between the president of the province
of Maranhão, Manoel da Costa Pinto (1828-1829), and José Cândido de Moraes e Silva, editor of
the newspaper Farol Maranhense, background to the issues presented here.