Farrapos War, the longest republican revolt faced by the Empire of Brazil

Abstract

This article have as a major aim to identify the social, economic and political roots of the Farroupilha Revolution — which for more than nine years faced the almighty Empire of Brazil —, its relationship with the other revolts occurred in that period, including the early years of the reign of Pedro II, its republican and federative traits, the meaning of its “separatism”, the participation of blacks, indians and poor white people, the limits of its “abolitionism”, the carnage of the Black Lancers on the eve of peace treatise and the so-called Peace of Ponche Verde. In this study, we use the method of historical and dialectical materialism.