Lutas políticas, abolicionismo e a desagregação da ordem escravista

Bananal, 1878-1888

Abstract

The aim of this article is to understand the political struggles in Bananal,
an important coffee county in Paraiba Valley in Brazil, between the years
1878-1888. In addition, I try to understand the connections between the
town’s elite and wider processes of consolidation, transformation and the
crisis of the Imperial State of Brazil. In other words, I analyze the political
reality of the Brazilian Empire and political struggles that derive from an
unstable situation caused mainly by the abolitionists that lead to the fall
of the Brazilian Monarchy.