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Lucia Maria Bastos Pereira das Neves The forgotten in the independence process: a history to be made

Almanack, Guarulhos, n. 25, ef00220, 2020 http://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463325ef00220

way, with this trajectory and performance in the Independence process, in line with José Bonifácio’s stance, his appointment as head of US business is understandable. His stance also indicates that the old Portuguese versus Brazilian dichotomy was not always followed to the letter, demonstrating the multiple interests of traders in this process of separation^[1]. Years later, he was together with Januário da Cunha Barbosa and Raimundo da Cunha Matos, one of the founding partners of the IHGB. It appears, therefore, that our simple merchant and dealer, author of an important work published in 1820, entitled Comércio Oriental - a repertoire of information about the ports, goods, weights and measures of the route from Cabo da Boa Esperança to Japan -, became he became a political man operating in the Independence process and in the first Reign, no doubt not only for his merits, but also for his network of sociabilities.

The authors who are also instigating are those who make comments about the governmental boards authorized by the Courts in the decree of April 18th, 1821, after the Constitution and its bases were sworn in. The joints were, according to correspondence inserted in the journal Revérbero Constitucional Fluminense, “a necessary act, such as accession and identification to the general ideas and the constitutional reform of the government of the Nation”^[2]. For historiography, they have become the foundation for a constitutional Brazil^[3]. However, the formation of these joints brought countless tensions and conflicts to the government of Regent Pedro I. They were established motivated by a spirit divided between the consent to the Courts and the repulsion to the central control, exercised by the regency of D.

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1. There is a master’s thesis on the author, focusing mainy on his performance in the United States, defended in 2015: CRUZ, Abner Neemias da. As práticas políticas de Silvestre Rebello: um diplomata brasileiro nos Estados Unidos da América, 1824-1829. 2015. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Franca, 2015. Disponível em: https://bit.ly/3eeWY5Y. Acesso em: 28 dez. 2019.
2. REVÉRBERO CONSTITUCIONAL FLUMINENSE. Rio de Janeiro, n. 7, 15 dez. 1821.
3. Cf. LIMA, Manuel de Oliveira. O Movimento da Independência: 1821-1822. Belo Horizonte: Itatiaia, 1989, p. 96-97.