During the 19th century, historians tried to explain how the Brazilian national State was born, attributing to the institutions of the new country a constitucional renovator and civilized character. In this measure, the contesters’ movements, between them the Balaiada, were judge as anomalies, barbarity manifestations against the civilization, represented by the monarchist order. However, memorialistics sources propagated different versions of the Balaiada revolt, rich in details and nuances, allowing the apprehension of mannering of emergent social segments of the crisis in the end of the colonial period. Entering in the 20th century historians had understood that the Balaiada represented the ascension of Brazilian people to the provincial and national power, the consolidation of the private power and the domination pact between the parties of the maranhense elite, accenting even more the social marginalization of the dismissed, especially the negros.
Balaiada; maranhenses parties; Regency revolts