A voz conservadora do Vale: a trajetória política de Domingos de Andrade Figueira

Abstract

This thesis deals with the political trajectory of Domingos de Andrade Figueira, one of the main spokesmen of the Conservative Party of the Vale do Paraíba fluminense. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the participation of Andrade Figueira, as a slave class representative in the Vale do Paraíba fluminense, in the resistance to the laws of emancipation of servile labor and his participation in the monarchist movement in the early years of the Republic. Andrade Figueira, a political heir of the Saquarema generation of 1830, alongside with Paulino Soares de Sousa Filho and Barão de Cotegipe fought hard for the interests of slaveholders who had not developed alternatives to the servile labor force during the debates and voting to the emancipationist projects of imperial government. A convicted monarchist and opponent of the Republic Andrade Figueira supported the Revolt of the Armada, as well as the Federalist Revolt in the South, both against the government of Floriano Peixoto. In 1900 he participated in a conspiracy against the government of Campos Salles along with the adviser João Alfredo, reaching almost 30 people between civil and military. He also turned against the government of Rodrigues Alves when he participated along with other monarchists through financing an attempt of coup d'état, led by the opposition formed by republican florianistas and jacobinos, taking advantage of the popular dissatisfaction with the vaccine. Figueira wanted to shake the confidence of the population in the Republic with the objective of restoring the Monarchy.