"Color Men! Brothers! ": the browns in the mining liberal-moderate pedagogy regency period

Abstract

In the socially peculiar context of Minas Gerais Province, the liberal-moderate elite developed a political pedagogy that cheated to identify liberal and “half-breed”, as industrious and talented, opposing to the two captivities – the slavery and absolutism – and, going to the meeting of the social demands of the same ones, to conquer the active assent of this auto-recognized social group for the moderate direction at Province.