Na “pátria das sublevações”: descontentamento e revoltas da gente de guerra no Rio Negro (1754-1777)

Abstract

The present dissertation turns to the study of the process of militarization of rio Negro, in São José do Rio Negro’s captaincy during the reign of D. José I (1751-1777). It is therefore about the problems within the factors and manifestations of discontentment from soldiers (and sometimes for others praças) that composed the paid troops detached into trimmings along the river Negro. From 1754, the process of militarization of this river got notoriously, face to the occupation, defense e demarcation of borders between the State of Grão-Pará e Maranhão (later called Grão-Pará e Rio Negro) and the vice reign of Nova Granada. As a result of this geopolitical context, keep and provide military corps in areas of trimmings became necessary, and by the same time, a challenge to Portuguese Crown, implying significantly into daily activities of paid troops; on the other way the soldiers manifested their unsatisfaction with the crises happening at the time by means of riots; the articulation between these two aspects from the process of militarization of river Negro is an attempt to comprehend the multiples intersections between and the colonial amazonic society. It’s necessary to say that along with desertions and lootings, the revolt from “people of war” became one of the principals and more recurrent manifestation of dissatisfaction from “people of war” in the garrison of captaincy of Rio Negro in the State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão (later to be called Grão-Pará and Rio Negro) and from the metropole.