On 7 January 1835, the Cabanagem began in Belém and spread into the interior of Pará. Indigenous, Black, and mestiço people joined a popular challenge to local elites and briefly took control of the province. The movement had diverse causes and participants; it should not be reduced to a single antislavery program. Its history nonetheless belongs in the history of coerced labor and colonial rule because poor Indigenous and Black residents confronted a political order built on land dispossession, racial hierarchy, and labor exploitation.
Ainda no tin imágen ni vidio pa e suseso aki.
Eventonan Relashoná
Who participated in the Cabanagem?
The National Archives chronology identifies Indigenous, Black, and mestiço insurgents.
The Cabanagem included no Black participants.
The National Archives chronology identifies Black, Indigenous, and mestiço insurgents.