Abstract

SILVA, Daniel António. On the trail of the Garrafadas: The abdication of Dom Pedro I and the assertion of Brazil’s national identity in Bahia. Anál. Social [online]. 2012, n.203, pp.268-297. ISSN 0003-2573.

We analyze in this essay the final moments of the reign of the first Brazilian emperor and the political tensions that led to his abdication: the growing stress on the distinction between “Portuguese” and “Brazilian” and the assertion of a kind of Brazilian national identity leading to the construction of a definition of citizenship, particularly among the residents of Bahia. The popular and military unrest in Bahia and Rio de Janeiro show that there were close relations and complementarities between Portuguese and Brazilians.  The duel that took place between them in March 1831 in Rio de Janeiro that came to be known as the noite das garrafadas (night of the “bottle riot”) and the street protests that occurred in Salvador da Bahia, are the key to the present study.

Keywords : Bahia; Rio de Janeiro; Peter I of Brazil; identity; nationality.

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