Who must pay the “blood tax”? Parliamentary debates over recruitment for the army in the Reign of Pedro I of Brazil
This article analyzes the political projects in dispute regarding the recruitment for the Imperial Army during the reign of Pedro I of Brazil. To do so, it examines the Annals of the Chamber of Deputies and regulations referring to land forces in order to understand the different proposals presented...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Em Tempo de Histórias (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/39130 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/emtempos/article/view/39130 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Recrutamento. Cidadão. I Reinado. Recruitment. Citizen. Reign of Pedro I. |
| Sumario: | This article analyzes the political projects in dispute regarding the recruitment for the Imperial Army during the reign of Pedro I of Brazil. To do so, it examines the Annals of the Chamber of Deputies and regulations referring to land forces in order to understand the different proposals presented by the imperial political elite and what they represented at the moment of the affirmation of an independent and constitutional Brazil. It concludes that the debated proposals demonstrated the political elite's concern to adapt recruitment practices to the constitutional context, to form a combatant corps made up exclusively of citizens, rejecting the service of freed Africans, and to distribute the burden of the “blood tax” on the citizens considered less useful in the imperial society. |
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