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.
Keywords
abolitionism; political crisis; political struggles