São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro e Jamestown (Virginia)

hipóteses preliminares sobre rebeliões, cidades e espaços nas Américas (1660-1677)

Abstract

In Portuguese America, in the late 1660s, a protest erupted in
which the local elite overthrow the royal governor and took over
the city of Rio de Janeiro for five months. In 1675, in Colony of
Virginia, frontier men added to other segments attacked the
governor and his allies, sparking a civil war known as Bacon’s
Rebellion, in honor of its main leader. This article examines a
spatial phenomenon observed from the contrast between these
two rebellions.
While in Rio de Janeiro, rebel actions converge on the space
of the city of São Sebastião in Rio de Janeiro, reinforcing the
central role of the capital where negotiations and protests were
concentrated, in Virginia, on the contrary, the spatial dispersion
is striking, with the emptying of the capital Jamestown
that was totally burnt down during the conflicts that spread
across the territory.