Sobre las luchas contra la Independencia en la América portuguesa: Los “portugueses” de la provincia de Maranhão

This paper analyses the incorporation of the Maranhão province to the brazilian State, on July 28, 1823, on the premise that the provincial political disputes, powered from the portuguese constitutionalism, did not lead to projects of political emancipation. It also considers that the transfer of the Court to Rio de Janeiro in 1808 resulted in increased divergences of interests among different regions of portuguese America, basis for the disputes that followed the Revolution of Porto and the subsequent independence proclaimed by D. Pedro. Moreover, explore the resistance movement of troops in Maranhão, in collaboration with traders and producers, according to the advance of land and naval forces, ordered from Rio de Janeiro. As a resource, prioritizes words that circulated in newspapers and pamphlets, new ingredients that moment, also new, transitional in Luso-Brazilian world