On 21 April 1792, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes, was hanged in Rio de Janeiro for his role in the 1789 Minas conspiracy. He was the only one of the principal accused whose death sentence was carried out. The episode is included as a contrast in anticolonial politics: the Minas movement opposed royal rule and taxation, but its elite participants did not mount a broad challenge to slavery. Its public memory later made a colonial officer into a national hero, while enslaved people and Black political projects were often left outside that national story.
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What is the careful interpretation of Tiradentes’s execution?
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The Minas conspiracy opposed royal rule but did not mount a broad antislavery program.