On 6 March 1817, a republican revolt broke out in Recife against Portuguese royal authority. Its leaders challenged imperial government and pursued regional independence, yet many belonged to slaveholding society and the movement did not establish abolition. Enslaved people and free people of color navigated the conflict in their own ways, including flight and attempts to use the upheaval to pursue freedom. This episode shows why anticolonial republicanism cannot automatically be treated as a movement against slavery.
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How should the 1817 Pernambuco revolt be understood?
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Its republican aims challenged imperial authority, but the movement did not abolish slavery.