Dodging pressure by avoiding control: debates concerning the 'law of captivity' (the 'War of the Hornets' in Pernambuco, 1851-1852)

Authors

  • Maria Luiza Ferreira de Oliveira Universidade de São Paulo; Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1808-8139.v0i3p47-55

Keywords:

poor free people, uprising^i2^srebell, Pernambuco, Second Reign, agriculture, modernization

Abstract

The present text addresses two central issues of Guillermo Palacios' paper, first the pressure towards the use of free labor in the context of the sugar industry growth and, secondly, the reasons that explain the end of the rebellious movement (the so called 'War of the Hornets'). By dealing with the length and the geographical limits of the rebellion, aspects that are both central to Palacios argument, the text aims to debate the author's interpretation of the movement as a peasant rebellion restricted to a non-harvest period. The government's response regarding the rebellion's defeat and the role played by a Capuchin Monk, Friar Caetano de Messina, are also discussed in order to place in a broader political scenario the events that occurred between December 1851 and February 1852.

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Published

2006-05-01

Issue

No. 3 (2006)

Section

Forum

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