Divergências e traições entre as lideranças farroupilhas: a partir da documentação do Barão de Caxias no período de 1842 a 1845

Abstract

This monographic work intends to evidence the existence of divergences between the farroupilha leaders during the established warlike confrontation of the Province de São Pedro in the XIX century, between 1835 and 1845. As a support for this assertive, we used the documentation of Luis Alves de Lima and Silva, the Baron of Caxias, who was then in charge of pacifying the southern conflict for the brazilian Empire since 1842, impregnated with various demonstrations that corroborate the problematic defended by this work. Besides using the documentation of Caxias to validate our intention, we also made use of the historiography produced by historians who have approached the Farroupilha Revolution, where we detected indications that demonstrate how much disunion there was among the commanders of this revolution. As a concern to demystify the farroupilha created by historians commited to an allusively civic and commemorative vision of this historical phenomenon, we dedicate part of the work in portraying the conformation of the coherence is the rebellious commanders, silencing on diverse elements that confirm the opposite. The sociocultural configuration in which the state of Rio Grande Do Sul currently deserves prominence in the production of this text, because the manipulation and distortion of its history have intervened with the dissemination of arguable traditional values, which circulate in its territory, having as the main incentivador of this practice the means of communication and the “gaúcha” tradition centers.